CTIA’s filed comments in response to the FCC’s “Delete, Delete, Delete” Public Notice identified regulations the association calls “outdated, impose costs without consumer benefits, duplicate other agencies’ responsibilities, or fall outside the FCC’s core mission.” New CTIA President/CEO Ajit Pai applauded former agency colleague and now Chairman Brendan Carr “for spearheading this initiative to remove unnecessary regulations that are standing in the way of investment, innovation, and infrastructure deployment in the U.S.”
As part of its review, CTIA encouraged the Commission to take the opportunity presented by this proceeding to review and update some of its systems and databases, “which create inefficiencies and impose unnecessary costs due to their suboptimal design and lack of accessibility.” Overall, the trade lobby says the FCC has acknowledged that light-touch regulation “helps to promote investment and innovation, allow competition to drive market solutions and constrain prices, and enable U.S. leadership in next-generation technologies.”
In its appendix, CTIA listed several regulations that can be either deleted or updated. These include language concerning the promotion of broadband, and language relating to supporting public safety during emergencies.
In the section concerning the efficient use of spectrum, CTIA suggests the Commission can encourage wireless deployment and innovative and efficient use of RF spectrum “by streamlining its outdated and legally dubious environmental and historic review rules” and “revising unnecessarily restrictive equipment authorization rules and practices.” It also urges the FCC to improve “the spectrum leasing process through updates to regulations and to the Universal Licensing System, and revising certain technical regulations that unnecessarily limit spectrum use.”
By Leslie Stimson, Inside Towers Washington Bureau Chief
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