Press Releases

TIA Welcomes Adam Cassady’s Nomination as Ambassador at Large for Cyberspace and Digital Policy

Arlington, VA (March 4, 2025) – The Telecommunications Industry Association (TIA), the trusted industry association for the connected world, today issued a statement welcoming President Trump’s nomination of Adam Cassady to serve as Ambassador at Large for Cyberspace and Digital Policy at the U.S. Department of State. TIA’s SVP of Government Affairs, Melissa Newman stated:…

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TIA Advances DCE 9000 Initiative to Strengthen Quality and Reliability Across Data Center Infrastructure

Arlington, VA (February 25, 2026) – The Telecommunications Industry Association—the trusted industry association for the connected world—announced continued industry momentum behind the Data Center Excellence (DCE 9000) initiative, a collaborative effort to establish the first quality management system standard specifically designed for modern data center physical infrastructure. Driven by rapid growth in artificial intelligence, cloud computing,…

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TIA Congratulates 2025 Star and QuEST Forum Award Winners

Arlington, VA (February 5, 2026) – The Telecommunications Industry Association—the trusted industry association for the connected world— proudly announces the recipients of its two annual awards programs: the TIA Star Awards and the TIA QuEST Forum Awards. These awards celebrate the most dedicated members whose leadership, expertise, and active engagement help advance the global ICT industry through TIA’s…

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Recent Blogs

Blockchain for ICT Supply Chain Security: Part 1 – The Enhanced MEID (E-MEID)

By TIA Staff | August 23, 2021 | Comments Off on Blockchain for ICT Supply Chain Security: Part 1 – The Enhanced MEID (E-MEID)

By Kevin L. Jackson, SVP, Total Network Services Corporation This is Part 1 of a 3 Part Series on the Enhanced Mobile Equipment Identifier (E-MEID) and how it can be used to improve ICT Supply Chain Security. The E-MEID is a tokenized MEID that creates a globally unique, auditable, and verifiable data repository for any…

Drones in Telecom: Tower Operations to Benefit from Standardizing Emerging Tech

By TIA | August 2, 2021 | Comments Off on Drones in Telecom: Tower Operations to Benefit from Standardizing Emerging Tech

By: Sam McGuire (5×5 Technologies) and Robert McCoy (Crown Castle) Since its inception in 2018, the goal of the TIA Drones Ad Hoc Subcommittee (under TIA’s TR-14 Engineering Committee) has been to understand the needs of the tower industry and help usher in the next generation of field services and data analytics via unmanned aerial…

TIA Industry Transformation Study: A Results Preview

By TIA | July 26, 2021 | Comments Off on TIA Industry Transformation Study: A Results Preview

The TIA Industry Transformation Study gathered insight from business leaders at TIA member companies who were asked to compare their business priorities for three specific time periods: the year before Covid-19 (2019); the time of the pandemic (2020/21); and the expectations for post-pandemic (2022 and beyond). The questions asked business leaders to compare the biggest…

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