Press Releases

Mobile Future today submitted a letter to the Federal Communications Commission highlighting how the U.S. wireless market remains the most fiercely competitive, healthy, and perpetually innovative wireless market in the world.

The House Communications and Technology Subcommittee held a hearing today on “Using Spectrum to Advance Public Safety, Promote Broadband, Create Jobs, and Reduce the Deficit.”

At today’s Mobile Future Forum, wireless technology expert Peter Rysavy presented findings from a new report analyzing the consequences of failing to make new spectrum available in the marketplace. The report discusses how spectrum relates to network capacity, how applications and devices create heavy data traffic, and the resulting spectrum shortage once available capacity has been consumed. Rysavy concludes that a widespread spectrum shortage would cause unpredictable network service and unreliable performance for consumers at potentially higher connectivity costs. This could be particularly detrimental to minorities and low-income Americans who primarily rely on their mobile phones to access the Internet.

President Obama today announced a new Expanded Wireless Access Initiative intended to help achieve his goal of increasing high speed wireless coverage to 98% of Americans.

Mobile Future filed comments with the Federal Communications Commission (FCC) regarding the Commission’s Notice of Proposed Rulemaking aimed at imposing new rules to help consumers avoid unexpected mobile usage charges.