Spectrum When Baker was named president and CEO, she identified spectrum as a policy priority. She has testified before
United States Congress on the issue. In a March 2016 media call, Baker said the industry is ready to invest billions of dollars to fund spectrum and new infrastructure. She suggested the "spectrum pipeline should become a national priority" because "100 MHz of spectrum is equal to $30 billion to the economy and 1 million jobs." In 2016, CTIA released reports outlining the importance of U.S. leadership in the 5G and high band spectrum. CTIA praised the FCC's unanimous vote in July 2016 to allow wireless operations above 24 GHz.
Broadband and net neutrality CTIA supported the FCC retaining "the 2010 open Internet order's 'mobile specific' approach to [regulations] given the 'unique engineering, competitive and legal conditions' of 4G LTE, rather than a one-size-fits both wired and wireless approach" in a letter from Baker to
Rep. Greg Walden (
R-
Ore.), chairman of the
House Energy Subcommittee on Communications and Technology, in September 2014. In January 2015, Baker testified on the importance of an open Internet but against the reclassification of mobile broadband as a Title II (
common carrier) service under the
Communications Act of 1934 at a hearing held by the House Energy and Commerce Subcommittee on Communications and Technology. Two months later, CTIA, the
National Cable and Telecommunications Association (NCTA), and USTelecom, filed legal challenges against the FCC's
net neutrality order reclassifying broadband under Title II.
Wireless infrastructure CTIA has helped lead efforts to remove regulatory barriers, at all levels of government to the deployment of wireless infrastructure, particularly
small cells and
distributed antenna systems (DAS). ==Industry trade shows==