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NATE Statement Regarding FCC Chairman Ajit Pai’s Announcement on Plans to Depart the Agency on January 20, 2021

Posted on: November 30, 2020 Category: NATE News

For Immediate Release:                                                                   

November 30, 2020                                                                                           

 

NATE Statement Regarding FCC Chairman Ajit Pai’s Announcement on Plans to Depart the Agency on January 20, 2021

 

The following statement can be attributed to NATE President & CEO Todd Schlekeway: 

“NATE salutes FCC Chairman Ajit Pai for his years of dedicated public service and visionary leadership at the agency. During his tenure, Chairman Pai played a leading role shaping policies that led to a successful broadcast repack transition, a streamlined regulatory environment surrounding the deployment of 5G technologies, unleashing access to spectrum bands critical to next generation networks and helping close the digital divide by expanding broadband connectivity to rural, unserved and underserved areas of the country. These actions will directly benefit the entire country as well as NATE member companies working on the front lines of deployment for years to come.”

“Additionally, NATE is forever grateful to Chairman Pai for utilizing his platform at the FCC to help shine a spotlight on the prominent role that the tower technician workforce plays to enable a connected society. For example, in 2018, Chairman Pai participated in a tower climb at a site in Colorado with numerous NATE member companies in order to experience first-hand the safe work practices, diverse skill sets, knowledge base and work-ethic that are required of today’s tower technicians to conduct safe and successful wireless deployments. It was this type of proactive, roll-up-your sleeves leadership which was a hallmark of Chairman Pai’s tenure.”

“Chairman Pai was recently voted to be the recipient of the NATE 2020 Regulatory Champion of the Year Award and the Association plans to formally recognize him with this honor in the coming weeks. NATE extends our best wishes to Chairman Pai and his family as he prepares to depart the FCC in January. We hope to cross paths with him in the future.”

For more information on the FCC, visit www.fcc.gov. For information on NATE, go to www.natehome.com.

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About NATE: The Communications Infrastructure Contractors Association

NATE: The Communications Infrastructure Contractors Association is a non-profit trade association dedicated to providing a unified voice for companies in the diverse tower and communications infrastructure construction, service and maintenance industries. Today the Association boasts over 950 member companies located throughout the United States, Bahamas, Canada, China, Ghana, Israel, Jamaica, Nigeria, Puerto Rico, Saudi Arabia, Singapore, Spain, Trinidad and the United Kingdom. For additional information on NATE, please visit www.natehome.com.

Contact: Todd Schlekeway
(605) 882-5865