TIA Pres. Matthew Flanigan wrote President Bush to congratulate h...
TIA Pres. Matthew Flanigan wrote President Bush to congratulate him Wed. on his re-election and support his goal of universal broadband deployment by 2007. TIA said there’s some recovery in the telecom sector, but it still lags other sectors…
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in the national economic recovery. “The bottom line is that the telecommunications sector remains on unsure footing with no assurance of achieving long-term stability and growth,” Flanigan wrote. The letter said several actions would help spur telecom recovery: (1) Encouraging deployment of national, advance, next-generation communications infrastructure. (2) Completing the FCC-led framework for broadband deregulation. (3) Establishing tax incentives for broadband deployment. (4) Reducing the number of taxes on communications services. (5) Creating a zone of concise, minimal and national regulation of IP communications. (6) Making additional spectrum available for new advanced wireless services, including expediting the nationwide transition to digital TV, which will free valuable spectrum for interoperable public safety communications and commercial advanced wireless services. (7) Appropriating and budgeting for additional targeted federal funding for communications research.