Press Releases

TIA Issues Call for Interest to Participate in TR-41 Standard Committee

Arlington, VA (January 9, 2023) – The Telecommunications Industry Association—the trusted industry association for the connected world—is updating its standards for “Performance and Accessibility for Communications Products” within TIA’s TR-41 standards engineering committee.  The new work will be focused on updating standards that enable mobile phones to be compatible with hearing aid devices.  TR-41 will meet on…

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2023 Omnibus Bill Does Not Support Removing Untrusted Chinese Telecom Equipment from U.S. Networks

Arlington, VA (December 21, 2022) – The Telecommunications Industry Association—the trusted industry association for the connected world—released a statement regarding the recently released $1.7 Trillion Omnibus Spending Bill:   “While we applaud both parties for coming together to negotiate the 2023 Consolidated Appropriations Act, TIA was stunned to see that this package does not include the…

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TIA QuEST Forum Opens Registration for 2022 Trusted Networks Summit Featuring Prominent Industry and Government Speakers

  Arlington, VA (October 11, 2022) – The Telecommunications Industry Association—the trusted industry association for the connected world—announced that its QuEST Forum Community has opened registration for its annual virtual conference to be held on November 15th. With a theme of Advancing Global Quality and Security for ICT, the Trusted Networks Summit with feature global business and…

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Recent Blogs

Understanding TIA-942: A Q&A with Tom McGarry

By TIA Staff | June 11, 2026 | Comments Off on Understanding TIA-942: A Q&A with Tom McGarry

Adapted from a podcast produced by the Telecommunications Industry Foundation (TIF). As data centers evolve rapidly, driven in large part by AI—industry standards play a critical role in ensuring reliability, scalability, and trust. In this Q&A, Michelle Kang, TIF Chair and newly appointed TIA Board Member, speaks with Tom McGarry, VP of Standards at the…

Why AI Infrastructure Needs More Than ISO: Reimagining Quality for the Data Center Era

By TIA Staff | June 2, 2026 | Comments Off on Why AI Infrastructure Needs More Than ISO: Reimagining Quality for the Data Center Era

The rapid expansion of AI is reshaping the data center industry at a pace few sectors have experienced. Demand for compute is accelerating, infrastructure is scaling rapidly, and expectations for uptime and performance continue to rise. In a recent webinar, TIA’s Mike Regan and Google’s Govind Ramu examined how this shift is exposing gaps in…

ANSI/TIA-942 and DCE 9000: Understanding the Benefits and Difference

By TIA Staff | March 23, 2026 | Comments Off on ANSI/TIA-942 and DCE 9000: Understanding the Benefits and Difference

From streaming and cloud services to AI and enterprise applications, nearly every aspect of the modern digital economy depends on highly reliable data centers. As capacity scales rapidly and operating environments grow more demanding, infrastructure reliability, resilience, performance, and efficiency become mission‑critical priorities. Standardized approaches to data center design and to the quality of the infrastructure supply chain are…

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