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…

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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

TIA Communications Tower Standard Celebrates 60 Years

By David Bain | April 29, 2019 | Comments Off on TIA Communications Tower Standard Celebrates 60 Years

TIA is proud to celebrate the 60th anniversary of providing guidance in the structural design and fabrication of communications towers with our engineering standard ANSI/TIA-222, Structural Steel Standards for Steel Antenna Towers and Supporting Structures.

TIA Hosts Tower Climbing Facilities Working Group to Talk about Safety and Care

By Andy Kurtzman | April 26, 2019 | Comments Off on TIA Hosts Tower Climbing Facilities Working Group to Talk about Safety and Care

TIA and its Foundation are pleased to support communication and education for the Climbing Facilities industry uplifting the current standards as published.

TIA Teams Up With UL To Advance Work in Smart Buildings

By Harry Smeenk | April 2, 2019 | Comments Off on TIA Teams Up With UL To Advance Work in Smart Buildings

We were eager to kick off 2019 announcing our collaboration with UL, a leading global safety science organization, to accelerate an industry framework for the evolving world of smart buildings.

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