Cutting regulation, making more government spectrum available for commercial use...
Cutting regulation, making more government spectrum available for commercial use and avoiding limitations on which companies can buy spectrum licenses “will lead to the President’s goal of 98 percent LTE deployment in the United States,” Internet Innovation Alliance officials said…
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at a Capitol Hill event Wednesday. IIA noted that by the FCC’s own estimates, by 2014, mobile data traffic will increase to 35 times 2009 levels, equivalent to a demand for 1,097 MHz of wireless broadband spectrum. “With consumer demand on track to soon outpace supply, the government must move quickly to allocate more airwaves for consumer use in order to keep mobile broadband available, accessible and affordable,” said IIA Co-Chairman Jamal Simmons. “Beyond making additional spectrum available, it’s crucial that policy makers encourage the private investment necessary to deploy these airwaves for the benefit of all Americans.” Policy “successes” that are “pro-Internet” came “when government removed barriers, rather than adding new ones,” said Co-Chairman Bruce Mehlman. “Unfortunately those days may be ending. While there is rare bipartisan agreement that the biggest challenge to broadband-enabled growth is lack of private investment and available spectrum, there is growing disagreement on how to fix it.” The alliance includes the American Conservative Union, Americans for Tax Reform, AT&T, Alcatel-Lucent, CompTIA, TechAmerica and the U.S. Internet Industry Association among others.