Today, the Internet Innovation Alliance (IIA) submitted its white paper, Evolving Preferences – Consumer Preferences Tilting Towards Mobile Broadband, to the Federal Communications Commission (FCC) for consideration in its annual inquiry into the deployment of advanced telecommunications capability.
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IIA Comments in USTelecom Forbearance Proceeding: “Policies that attract private capital to investment in high-speed broadband have very high economic impact”
Today, the Internet Innovation Alliance (IIA) submitted comments at the Federal Communications Commission (FCC) in support of USTelecom’s request for forbearance from certain outdated requirements of the Telecommunications Act of 1996. Forbearance is a process provided by Congress that allows regulation to keep up with rapid technological change so that...
U.S. Should Lead, Not Follow Europe, on Privacy
The Mercury News
Former Congressman Rick Boucher argues that the practical effect of the privacy rules proposed by former FCC Chair Tom Wheeler would do little to protect Americans on basic privacy issues and be harmful to the advertising business model of internet edge providers.
IIA Chairman Boucher on a New Era of Progress for Broadband in Rural America
Watch the video of IIA Honorary Chairman Rick Boucher discussing the positive steps the FCC has taken to close the rural-urban digital divide.
IIA Statement on the FCC’s Establishment of an Office of Economics and Analytics
IIA supports today's FCC action that spotlights the importance of data in crafting fact-based decision-making for our nation's communications marketplace.
IIA Statement Encouraging a Bipartisan Legislative Solution for Open Internet Protections
The Internet Innovation Alliance released the statement below responding to Senator Markey’s press conference about his CRA to reverse the FCC’s Restoring Internet Freedom Order.
IIA Statement on FCC’s “Restoring Internet Freedom” Vote
Today, the Federal Communications Commission (FCC) successfully repealed the heavy-handed, utility-style regulations levied on broadband in 2015. We congratulate the agency for returning the nation’s governance of high-speed broadband back to a framework—originally initiated by the Clinton Administration—that promotes investment, innovation and economic growth.
IIA Statement on FCC’s Restoring Internet Freedom Order Draft Proposal
The Internet Innovation Alliance (IIA) today issued the following statement in response to the Federal Communications Commission (FCC) releasing a draft proposal of its Restoring Internet Freedom Order that will return broadband internet access service to its prior classification as an information service.
IIA Statement on FCC’s Actions to Accelerate Wireless and Wireline Broadband Deployment
IIA applauds the FCC for today’s actions to remove outdated regulations to help accelerate 21st century high-speed wireline and wireless broadband deployment for all Americans.
IIA Supports the Wireline Infrastructure Order before the FCC
This Thursday, the Federal Communications Commission (FCC) will consider a Wireline Infrastructure Order aimed at removing regulatory barriers to accelerate investment and deployment of our nation’s next-generation, fiber-based, high-speed broadband networks. IIA supports network change notification modifications for copper retirement, streamlining Section 214(a) service discontinuance rules, and pole attachment reform.