Jul 15, 2021 Adelstein Remarks to The Media Institute WIA President and CEO Jonathan Adelstein made the following remarks to The Media Institute Communications Forum on July 15, 2021. A full video recording can be found on The Media Institute’s website. Thank you Rick, and The Media Institute, for inviting me. Back when I last spoke as an FCC Commissioner, you fed us lunch News, WIA Press Releases
Jul 14, 2021 WIA’s President and CEO to Address The Media Institute Jonathan Adelstein to be featured speaker at The Media Institute’s Communications Forum virtual luncheon ARLINGTON, Va. – WIA President and CEO Jonathan Adelstein will be the featured speaker at The Media Institute’s Virtual Communications Forum luncheon, Thursday, July 15 at 1 p.m. ET. Adelstein’s remarks will focus on the key role wireless broadband should play in News
Jul 14, 2021 How the wireless infrastructure industry is preparing for 5G workforce needs By Kristen Beckman 5G will change jobs. Not only will the technology create thousands of jobs to build out the networks that will support 5G, but applications enabled by 5G will also change millions of jobs across industries and around the world. A Connect (X): All Access panel, “Getting Ready for 5G: Preparing a Skilled Workforce for Future Wireless Networks,” explored the WIA Blog
Jul 12, 2021 Flexibility needed to fund infrastructure bills, Adelstein testifiesBy Tracy Ford Congress should give itself flexibility to bring broadband services to more people, much like then-Vice President Joe Biden told the Rural Utilities Service (RUS) to give itself “freaking flexibility” in its 2009 plan to bring broadband to more communities, WIA President and CEO Jonathan Adelstein told the Senate Commerce Subcommittee on Communications, Media and Broadband. The hearing, chaired by Sen. Ben Ray Luján (D-N.M.), and Ranking Member Sen. WIA Blog
Jul 6, 2021 Altaeros Completes Customer Acceptance Testing of New SuperTower JULY 6, 2021: Today, USA-based aerial platform innovator, Altaeros, announced the successful completion of Customer Acceptance Testing its new SuperTower™ product, ST-Flex™. ST-Flex is a portable, rapidly deployable SuperTower designed to simplify and accelerate network deployments for rural connectivity, disaster response, industrial IoT, and many other critical applications. ST-Flex will enable wireless communication providers to seamlessly Members in the News
Jun 30, 2021 DOL Awards Apprenticeship Center of Excellence to Safal Partners, Consortium including WIA The Department of Labor announced that it has awarded $7 million to a consortium of organizations led by Houston’s SAFAL Partners, which includes WIA, to develop a registered apprenticeship Center of Excellence in support of Strategic Partnerships and System Alignment. The award was one of four cooperative agreements DOL awarded to establish Registered Apprenticeship Technical News, WIA Press Releases