The FCC must include wireless in its upcoming...
The FCC must include wireless in its upcoming broadband progress report, since wireless services are the services “consumers are purchasing in the marketplace,” CTIA said in comments filed Thursday at the FCC on the commission’s Tenth Broadband Progress Notice of…
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Inquiry. “It is time for the Section 706 report to embrace mobile broadband and the extensive role it plans in Americans’ lives,” CTIA said. In analyzing mobile broadband speeds the FCC should focus on existing offerings, the group said. “Such an approach is particularly warranted in the competitive mobile wireless sector, where providers are aggressively vying to provide the fastest speeds and most extensive network coverage.” CTIA said smartphone speeds have increased eightfold in just four years. The group urged the agency to avoid setting “arbitrary latency or usage thresholds,” which could exclude wireless offerings “widely deployed in the market and demonstrably valued by consumers.” The comments (http://bit.ly/1lD9OOn) were filed in docket 14-126.