BROWSING: TIA

CCA, seven other orgs call for full rip-and-replace funding

Failure to fund the FCC rip-and-replace program fully will lead to service shutdowns: Letter to Congress The Competitive Carriers Association and seven other organizations are calling upon Congress to fully fund the costs associated with removing and replacing the equipment from foreign vendors which has...

Test and Measurement: TIA seeks to develop best practices for edge computing

The Telecommunications Industry Association has started up a new standards task group that aims to develop industry best practices for edge data centers. The work will update TIA's existing TIA-942 standard -- which was developed with large, centralized data centers in mind -- to include...

Industry associations push back on FCC move to ban Chinese equipment vendors

A number of wireless and wireline industry associations are pushing back against a proposed rule by the Federal Communications Commission that would prevent Universal Service Fund money from being used to pay for equipment or services from companies that are considered a risk to...

5G trends: Closing comments

Dan Mayer and Brenda Boehm closes the 5G trends track at the Enterprise IoT Summit in Austin, Texas. https://youtu.be/LvJ9T9RXvRA Dan Meyer started at RCR Wireless News in 1999 covering wireless carriers and wireless technologies. As editor-in-chief, Dan oversees editorial direction, reports on news from the wireless industry,...

Enterprise IoT Summit: 5G in 5 years

Panel: 5G in 5 years Moderator Brenda Boehm, Chief Strategy Officer at the Telecommunications Industry Association (TIA) is joined by a panel of experts including Kevin Robinson - Vice President, Marketing, Wi-Fi Alliance; Dr Rashmi Misra, WW GM Digital Video Services, Communications and Media Solutions, HPE; Chuck...

How spectrum policy drives 5G innovation

How spectrum policy drives 5G innovation Moderator Berge Ayvazian of Wireless 2020 is joined by Dileep Srihari, Director, Legislative & Government Affairs, TIA; Derek Kerton, Founder of Telecom Council and Fred Campbell, Director of Tech Knowledge and former Chief of the FCC Wireless Telecommunications Bureau to discuss how...

Enterprise IoT Summit: 5G trends

5G Trends: Opening comments Dan Meyer, Editor-in-Chief at RCR Wireless News and Brenda Boehm, Chief Strategy Officer at the Telecommunications Industry Association (TIA), kick off the 5G trends session at the Enteprise IoT Summit in Austin Texas. https://youtu.be/fVNAdQZhKG0 Dan Meyer started at RCR Wireless News in 1999 covering...

Operators fear impact from lack of 5G deployment diversity

A new report from TIA, Tolaga Research and InterDigital found 5G deployment hurdles to include too much of a focus on specific sites, backhaul challenges. The mobile telecommunications space is currently inundated with hype surrounding “5G” technology, though according to a new...

Telecom industry threatens further legal action in Open Internet ruling

Legal challenges are expected following a US District Appeals Court decision to back the FCC's Open Internet Order A U.S. District Appeals Court decision backing the Federal Communications Commission’s Open Internet Order garnered the expected commentary from both sides of the argument. Among telecom-related entities,...

IoT to account for nearly half of IT budgets by 2020

Nearly half of IT budgets will be dedicated to IoT development and implementation by 2020 as IoT services adoption continues to grow. IT budgets are in for a significant transformation as Internet of Things (IoT) services become a top priority for businesses. By 2020, IoT should...

TIA tackles NFV interoperability with planned test lab

TIA expects to launch the first NFV-focused test lab in North America early next year The Telecommunications Industry Association is throwing its might behind the growing network functions virtualization space, announcing plans to launch an NFV interoperability testing laboratory. TIA said the lab is expected to...

Budget deal to include Spectrum Pipeline Act

WASHINGTON – The nation's capital was abuzz following news that the GOP-led Congress and White House had reached a wide-ranging budget compromise that will set federal spending levels for the rest of the Obama administration and into 2017. Among the items included in the omnibus bill...

Industry applauds FCC emphasis on opening new spectrum

CTIA VP said the move will be ‘critical’ to developing 5G, IoT WASHINGTON – Following its October open meeting, the Federal Communications Commission discussion on opening up new spectrum is being well-received by the telecom industry. The FCC issued of a Notice of Proposed Rule Making...

RCRatx Speakers Series: 5G, Wi-Fi and the Internet of Things

RCR Wireless News recently hosted the first installment of of its RCRatx Speakers Series, hosted in the company's production studios on the east side of Austin, Texas. The inaugural installment featured Liam Quinn, a VP and senior fellow at Dell; and Franklin Flint, CTO at...

5G, Wi-Fi and the IoT – HetNet Happenings: Episode 28

On this episode of HetNet Happenings, RCR Wireless News Managing Editor Sean Kinney is joined by industry experts to discuss the intersections of 5G, Wi-Fi and the Internet of Things (IoT). https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gaiYUkQ19jg   Kinney is joined by Franklin Flint, the chief technology officer for the Telecommunications Industry...

Software: TIA report touts strong cloud investments through 2017

Software is becoming an increasingly important part of telecommunication networks and deployments as both wired and wireless carriers look to add functionality to operations while increasing simplicity and reducing costs. RCR Wireless News is keeping an eye on recent developments through its weekly “Software”...

Policy: 600 MHz incentive auction process set for significant FCC attention

RCR Wireless News recently spoke with Trey Hanbury, a partner in Hogan Lovell’s Washington, D.C., office and a member of the law firm’s Technology, Media and Telecoms practice, on a number of Federal Communications Commission proceedings scheduled for the next couple of months tied...

US Telecom Policy News: AT&T runs afoul of FCC

Telecoms and government institutions frequently find their paths crossing one another, as a bevy of networking issues often requires the oversight or intervention of a federal institution. This week saw many such instances, ranging from federal officials investigating complaints lodged against one of the nation's largest telecoms to the U.S. government flexing its muscle on the use of Chinese equipment overseas.

TIA handicaps spectrum initiatives

Spectrum is a source the wireless industry cannot get enough of. With consumer demand for wireless services on an ever-increasing track, wireless carriers and equipment providers are constantly on the lookout for new spectrum resources. Danielle Coffey, VP of government affairs at TIA, provided insight...

Smartphone users track family members

Americans are very comfortable using smartphones to track the whereabouts of family members, and some are willing to track family members who don't know they are being monitored.

TIA 2011: Sen. Hutchison rails against regulation, calls for more spectrum

DALLAS — Sen. Kay Bailey Hutchison did not hold back in her criticism of the federal government and what she views as unchecked regulation and a growing set of burdens placed on businesses in a keynote this morning at TIA 2011. After getting on her...

TIA 2011: Suppliers need to innovate as video explodes on network, AT&T exec says

DALLAS—“Go global, go mobile and go virtual are trends worldwide,” said Tim Harden, president of Supply Chain & Fleet Operations at AT&T Inc., during a keynote address Friday at Telecommunications Industry Association's TIA2011: Inside the Network show.The distance between intent and action has...

TIA 2011: Sen. Hutchison rails against regulation, calls for more spectrum

DALLAS – Sen. Kay Bailey Hutchison did not hold back in her criticism of the federal government and what she views as unchecked regulation and a growing set of burdens placed on businesses in a keynote this morning at TIA 2011.After getting on her...

TIA 2011: Verizon's Melone reflects on the primary drivers of LTE

DALLAS — The wireless industry has underestimated consumer demands for broadband capacity and speeds every step along the way, Tony Melone, EVP and CTO at Verizon Communications Inc. (VZ), said in a morning keynote here at the Telecommunications Industry Association's annual show."They imagine, actually...