TECH POLICY

Guiding Public Policy and Technology Innovation in a Rapidly Evolving Landscape

The Technology Policy Vector translates technical expertise into actionable public policy, helping to accelerate the Broadband Industry’s innovation goals.

Overview

Priorities

Use Cases

Working together to create the networks of tomorrow

As governments increasingly influence the pace and direction of technology development, it is important to ensure that policy outcomes are based on technical reality and enable long-term innovation. To support a resilient, sustainable and secure broadband ecosystem, our technology policy work is centered on:

Shaping Pro-Innovation Policy

Engaging with policymakers to align government and industry priorities, accelerating technology development and securing access to critical resources.

Building Partnerships and a Shared Understanding

Working with vendors, operators, industry organizations and government entities to build an understanding of the current and future state of broadband connectivity.

Addressing Critical Public Priorities

Developing technical analysis, guidance and innovative approaches to tackle key challenges facing the communications sector.

Priorities Include

Security, Privacy and AI

Aligning industry and government interests to enhance network and device security, enable responsible and secure use of AI technologies, embed privacy-by-design principles, and encourage a more diverse vendor ecosystem.

Energy Efficiency and Sustainability

Leading voluntary agreements and standards to drive energy efficiency of residential broadband and video services equipment, helping the industry meet energy efficiency and sustainability goals.

Spectrum and Wireless

Engaging with policymakers on expanding spectrum access to support growing demand and innovative approaches to wireless connectivity.

Broadband

Supporting broadband’s competitive positioning through education, analysis, measurement and tools in the policy domain.

Tech Policy in Action

Enabling spectrum innovation with flexible use models

Access to additional spectrum is critical to support the high-capacity, low-latency demands of next-generation applications like augmented reality (AR)/virtual reality (VR) and autonomous systems.

CableLabs helps shape flexible spectrum use models that optimize spectrum utilization to support deployment of technologies like 5G and Wi-Fi 7, provide operators flexibility to meet increasing demand for high-bandwidth applications and inform policy decisions that advance innovation. As spectrum demands grow, this collaborative approach with our members, policymakers and other industry leaders ensures operators can deploy scalable, high-performance networks that meet future connectivity needs.