The Wireless Communications Association will push policymakers in the new administration and Congress to make wireless broadband affordable everywhere. Opening the group's annual symposium in San Jose, Calif., CEO Fred Campbell offered a four-point "national wireless broadband strategy." In his remarks Campbell recast familiar WCA positions favoring "policies that minimize barriers to the deployment of wireless broadband infrastructure and encourage additional investment," from zoning rules to radiofrequency coordination; "policies that advance the proliferation of broadband services" as "the overriding priority ... consistent with other critical policy objectives"; "universal service policies to support affordable, universal wireless broadband access," through the definition of any universal high-speed service; and assigning the greatest possible spectrum to wireless broadband, through "wider contiguous bandwidths than have typically been made available" and harmonizing "spectrum allocations around the world." The universal-service point contrasts with a recent emphasis in policy discussions on choosing low-cost providers through reverse auctions, Campbell told us.
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