The Skills Gap in Wireless Infrastructure Education: A Strategy for Improvement

The Skills Gap in Wireless Infrastructure Training and Education: A Strategy for Improvement confronts the reality that the demand for wireless infrastructure continues to outpace the industry’s existing labor force of trained technology professionals, engineers and field technicians. This skills gap poses serious threats to the nation’s ability to expand wireless broadband coverage in urban, suburban and rural markets. Government and industry therefore must develop training and educational programs to draw workers to the industry, and to provide the advanced skills the industry needs as wireless demand grows to improve the safety and quality of deployments. The Wireless Infrastructure Association’s Innovation & Technology Council produced this report.