WISPA NEWS

Washington, DC – The Wireless Internet Service Providers Association (WISPA) today announced it has selected Claude Aiken, a recognized leader in telecommunications policy, to become its first full-time president and CEO. Aiken begins his new position today and will be based in Washington, DC.

S. Jenell Trigg, a Member of Lerman Senter PLLC and a longtime adviser to WISPA, was appointed by FCC Chairman Ajit Pai to serve on the ACDDE Working Group on Digital Empowerment and Inclusion, which that will address new approaches to expanding access to emerging technologies in under-served and under-connected communities. Two other working groups will focus on diversity in broadcasting and in the tech sector.

WISPAMERICA 2018, hosted by the Wireless Internet Service Providers Association (www.WISPA.org), attracted nearly 800 leaders from more than 400 companies from across the country. WISPA is a membership-driven organization dedicated to the advancement of the WISP industry.

In case you hadn’t heard, WISPA is in the midst of its most aggressive advocacy effort ever, working to block the mobile industry’s demands to erect barriers to our sector in the Citizens Broadband Radio Service (CBRS) spectrum band (3550-3700 MHz). Here’s an update on where we stand. 

For rural communities, the SuperCluster will focus on bridging the digital divide and closing the homework gap, improving healthcare and the ability to age in place and improving economic development while spurring innovation.  Companies, communities, counties, federal agencies and universities are already participating.

Washington, DC -- The Federal Communications Commission’s (FCC) this week took the final steps required to launch its Connect America Fund Phase II auction (CAF II), which will provide up to nearly $2 billion over the next decade to expand fixed, high-speed Internet service in unserved rural areas.