Press Releases

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…

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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…

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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…

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Recent Blogs

Q & A with TIA Chairman of the Board, Doug Moore

By TIA | April 16, 2021 | Comments Off on Q & A with TIA Chairman of the Board, Doug Moore

Recently, we caught up with TIA’s Chairman of the Board, Doug Moore.  Doug is CEO of Fujitsu Network Communications, Inc., and we asked him some questions about what issues are currently facing the ICT industry as the world begins to emerge after more than a year under work-from-home and social distancing advisory orders and what…

Data Centers: Foundational to Innovation Now and In the Future

By Jacques Fluet | March 24, 2021 | Comments Off on Data Centers: Foundational to Innovation Now and In the Future
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In celebration of International Data Center Day, TIA is exploring innovations enabled by data centers and taking a look at what’s in store for the future, as data centers continue to evolve to support low latency networking applications and 5G services. Data centers have served as foundational elements of computing systems since the 1940s, when…

The Time is Right to Invest in Our Future with The Smart Buildings Acceleration Act

By TIA | March 3, 2021 | Comments Off on The Time is Right to Invest in Our Future with The Smart Buildings Acceleration Act

By Patrick Lozada, Global Policy Director, TIA As we anticipate and hope for a return to some level of normalcy in 2021, Congress is considering where to invest federal funding for Fiscal Year 2022 (FY22). As such, TIA and UL are teaming to urge leaders to include funding for the Department of Energy’s Smart Building…

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