CTIA-The Wireless Association® Statement on the Incentive Auctions Update and Broadband Data Order at the FCC June Opening Meeting

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Jun 27, 2013, 01:39 ET

WASHINGTON, June 27, 2013 /PRNewswire-USNewswire/ -- Please attribute the following statement to CTIA-The Wireless Association® Vice President of Regulatory Affairs Scott Bergmann:

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"CTIA is confident that the broadband data to be collected under today's Report and Order will confirm what consumers already know: wireless users in the U.S. benefit from having access to the fastest, most ubiquitous, and most advanced wireless networks and devices, all made possible through the virtuous cycle of wireless investment and innovation. This investment and innovation, in turn, drives greater mobile adoption and mobile broadband deployment.

"CTIA also welcomes today's update on the status of the Broadcast Incentive Auction. As CTIA has previously stressed, the incentive auction is critical to unleashing necessary additional spectrum for mobile broadband. We commend Acting Chairwoman Clyburn and her colleagues for their continued efforts to advance this important proceeding and their continued commitment to conducting this critical auction in 2014."

CTIA-The Wireless Association® (www.ctia.org) is an international organization representing the wireless communications industry. Membership in the association includes wireless carriers and their suppliers, as well as providers and manufacturers of wireless data services and products. CTIA advocates on behalf of its members at all levels of government. The association also coordinates the industry's voluntary best practices and initiatives, and sponsors the industry's leading wireless tradeshows. CTIA was founded in 1984 and is based in Washington, DC.