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February 27, 2008 • Volume 9, Issue 8

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TIA Closely Watching New Markey Legislation, Hearing
New communications legislation proposed by House Subcommittee on Telecommunications and the Internet Chairman Ed Markey (D-Mass.) is being monitored closely by many parties in the high tech industry, including TIA, which takes particular interest in the bill's municipal broadband deployment protection language. More >>

TIA Initiates Withdrawal of Fiber Standard
This week, TIA initiated ballots to withdraw one of its fiber optic standards and an accompanying addendum by ANSI ballot, continuing its commitment to move toward universal, global standards. More >>

NXTcomm08 to Hold Collocation Press Conference with InfoComm
On February 28, TIA’s co-owned NXTcomm, the one event delivering the ecosystem of network-enabled voice, video and data, and InfoComm International, the trade association managing the top 50 tradeshow serving the audiovisual and information communications industries, will discuss the shows’ collocation in June in Las Vegas at a press conference, webinar, conference call simultaneous event. More >>

See the TIA 2008 Market Review and Forecast Press Conference!

An overview of the information and communications technology industry including detailed sections on the landline, wireless, equipment and international markets.
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Featuring:

• Timely data and analysis

• Actionable info for long-term planning

• Details on every major telecom segment

Grant Seiffert, President, TIA

Creative Destruction and Digital Content
By TIA President
Grant Seiffert

In recent months, I've seen a slew of headlines about trends in digital content, whether received over the computer, the television or, of course, the mobile handset. Oftentimes the headlines come from completely different perspectives and draw contradictory, or at least wildly differing, conclusions – mobile TV is here to stay, mobile TV is dead and buried, free digital downloads are the wave of the future, all content should be monetized, and so on.

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Membership

TIA Member Spotlight:

Oscilloquartz

For more than 50 years Oscilloquartz (OSA) has been a pioneer in the domain of time and frequency. Today, Oscilloquartz is recognized as one of the most advanced manufacturers of frequency sources, such as quartz crystal oscillators, GPS receivers or Cesium clocks, for telecommunications applications.

•	NY AG Subpoenas Comcast on Broadband news.yahoo.com >>

•	Qwest May Replace Sprint with Verizon for Wireless informationaweek.com >>

•	Google: Are Ad Clickthroughs Overblown? businessweek.com >>

•	Nortel Takes Big Charge, Cuts Jobs nytimes.com >>

•	EU Fines Microsoft Record $1.35 Billion washingtonpost.com >>

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