WIA Pouring Resources Into States for 2022: Adelstein
The Wireless Infrastructure Association expanded its state outreach program "dramatically" for 2022 “because we think it’s going to be a big year,” WIA President Jonathan Adelstein told the Colorado Wireless Association’s Annual Education Conference Thursday. “You need to get people…
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hired early and in the room to make sure that you’re there when the big discussions are had,” he said. With all the discussion on infrastructure funding, this isn’t a year “to let your guard down,” he said. WIA will be in “probably over 25 states this year,” he said: “Not every state is going to be active, not every state is really kind of critical. … It’s very state specific.” Adelstein said Colorado is one of the states WIA's targeting, but “it’s pretty costly to do this.” WIA is watching whether states follow the directions of Congress as it approved infrastructure legislation and how the Commerce Department “ensures some level of uniformity,” he said. “States have enormous power” under the Infrastructure Investment and Jobs Act and “we need to be vigilant.” The level of wireless buildout could depend on strict rules by Commerce requiring technological neutrality, he said.