- Advocating for federal, state, and local policies that enable competitive broadband alternatives in every community, which will lead to more innovation, investment, and affordability.
- Supporting the deployment of robust, scalable, competitive broadband network capability throughout the U.S., including fiber-based, gigabit and above infrastructure that will provide a connectivity foundation for 5G and future generation networks.
- Track BEAD implementation and ensure that competitive providers that are best positioned to serve local communities are part of the solution.
- Supporting state and local policies that will enable more broadband competition through reasonable wholesale access.
- Advocating the FCC for permitting and pole attachment reform (including make-ready timelines for large pole attachment projects and clarifying that new attachers are not solely responsible for pole replacement costs) as well as providing competitive providers with equal access to residential and commercial multiple tenant environments.
- Advocating the FCC to stabilize the high contribution factor, which telecom customers ultimately pay as an additional fee on their monthly telecom bills in order to finance the USF.
- Advocating to Congress’ bipartisan, bicameral USF Working Group to put the USF on a sustainable path forward through appropriations or by expanding the base to include BIAS revenues.
- Proposed reasonable changes to USF distributions, including the High-Cost program, that would phase out some support mechanisms that are no longer needed.
- Advocate that the FCC consider the billions of dollars that Congress has provided through the Infrastructure Investment and Jobs Act for broadband deployment and affordability and find savings in the USF programs.
- Promoting open networks, open markets, and competition in telecommunications and technology.
- Advocating our founding principle of competition to ensure a robust ecosystem to promote competition and innovation throughout the entire technology stack.
- Work in consultation with the INCOMPAS-affiliated Artificial Intelligence Competition Center, which has developed a national framework for harnessing the transformational power of AI.
- Prepare the future workforce and support comprehensive retraining programs.
- Drive a comprehensive “all-of-the-above” energy strategy that pairs robust fiber networks with abundant data center capacity.
- Establish clear protocols for AI use in national security applications while protecting civil liberties.
- Enact federal privacy legislation to provide consistent consumer protections.
- Supporting efforts to increase competition for broadband through the broader use of mid-band and millimeter wave spectrum.
- Advocating Congress to reinstate the FCC’s auction authority and empower the FCC to leverage the nation’s spectrum resources for more licensed and unlicensed broadband use cases.
- Advocate the FCC to take immediate action in the 12.2-12.7 GHz proceeding to modernize its rules to permit high-powered, two-way fixed broadband service in the band.
- Advocate the FCC to finalize a technology-neutral, licensed sharing framework in the 37.0-37.6 GHz band so the spectrum can be made available for increased commercial use.
- Advocating for solutions that will fill current regulatory gaps (including gaps for wholesale providers and enterprise customers), avoid putting any unnecessary restrictions that impact the ability of voice providers to innovate and compete, and are tailored appropriately for smaller competitors based on their resource constraints.
- To mitigate fraudulent robocalling and robotexting activity, advocate that the Commission must advance the IP transition to ensure STIR/SHAKEN operates across IP-interconnected networks, preserve the flexibility that providers have to incorporate AI technologies into their mitigation efforts, institute robust call/text blocking notification and redress mechanisms, and ensure industry efforts to manage or label illegal robocalls do not intentionally or inadvertently discriminate against competitive providers.
- Advocate for sensible solutions that address major providers’ attempts to retire copper infrastructure and transition to IP-based technologies.
2025 INCOMPAS Policy Initiatives
Each year we set out to represent our members on issues that encourage competition and innovation. See the complete list of issues that we are focusing on this year for our members below.
INCOMPAS Policy Accomplishments
INCOMPAS’ advocacy has been critical in obtaining policy wins on behalf of our members. Take a look at a few of our latest policy accomplishments.