TIA Highlights Deployment/Adoption, Spectrum Policy, USF Reform

Telecommunications Industry Association urges the Federal Communications Commission to include the following in the National Broadband Plan:

• Broadband Deployment and Adoption: The plan should stimulate investment, innovation, and the promotion of next-generation broadband deployment and adoption and encourage regulation that is modest and predictable through an exclusively federal regulatory regime.
• Spectrum Allocation and Management: The FCC should continue to adopt forward-looking spectrum management polices that continue to promote and encourage a highly competitive wireless marketplace.
• Universal Service Fund Reform: Transition the universal service system to broadband in a manner that is technologically and competitively neutral
• Accessibility: The Plan should be used as a mechanism to promote a voluntary Industry-Government partnership to bring broadband to hard-to-reach Americans, including those with disabilities.