Press Releases
Telecommunications Industry Association (TIA) Launches Data Center Quality Standard Initiative
Arlington, VA (October 8, 2025) – The Telecommunications Industry Association (TIA) announces a new initiative to develop an infrastructure-focused Data Center Quality Standard aimed at advancing operational excellence, reliability, and sustainability in the rapidly expanding global data center market. Driven by the growth of AI, cloud computing, and digital services, demand for data centers is…
TIA to Establish Free-Space Optical Communications Standard; Attochron to Lead New Working Group
Arlington, VA (September 8, 2025) – The Telecommunications Industry Association—the trusted industry association for the connected world—today announced it will lead the establishment of U.S. standards for free-space optical communications (FSOC). This effort will be led by a sub-committee of the TR-45 – Mobile and Point-to-Point Communications Standards committee and be called the FSOC Working…
TIA Welcomes U.S.-EU Trade Framework
Arlington, VA (August 21, 2025) – The Telecommunications Industry Association – the trusted industry association for the connected world – released the following statement from TIA’s Patrick Lozada, Director, Global Policy: “TIA welcomes the release of additional details regarding the U.S.-EU Framework on an Agreement on Reciprocal, Fair, and Balanced Trade. The Framework takes valuable steps…
Recent Blogs
TIA’s TR engineering committees have been hard at work with ongoing standards development meetings and leadership elections. TR-14 Structural Standards for Communication and Small Wind Turbine Support Structures Committee TR-14 is pleased to welcome three new participants—Johnson Broderick Engineering, FieldSync, and Westchester Services. TR-14 will hold their first 2023 in-person full committee and Ad Hoc…
TIA Government Affairs team has been very active over the past few months advocating for our members and the ICT industry by working with a variety of U.S. and international government agencies and officials. On the issue of supply chain security, TIA met with the National Telecommunications and Information Administration (NTIA) and State leads on…
Late last year, TIA’s Director of Global Policy, Patrick Lozada, traveled to Europe for meetings in Belgium, Berlin, and London with government officials to discuss the increasingly complex landscape around standards and supply chain security. What he found was a common understanding that yesterday’s solutions don’t work for securing today’s networks. Across the board, countries…