The INCOMPAS 40th Anniversary video, which premiered during the INCOMPAS Show in Las Vegas, is now available on our YouTube channel. Watch as four decades of advocacy are told through the eyes of the innovators who helped make competition the law of the land and opened the door to a future filled with new networks and streaming innovation. 

Dear INCOMPAS Members and Friends:

As 2021 comes to a close, on behalf of INCOMPAS, I would like to thank our members and supporters for another successful year. It’s because of you that the association has thrived for 40 years, and events – like our Policy Summit, held virtually last February, and The 2021 INCOMPAS Show held in Las Vegas in October – were rousing successes.

INCOMPAS remains strong and well positioned moving into 2022. Our membership has nearly doubled since 2014. In 2021, INCOMPAS welcomed 14 new members representing service providers of all types and their vendor partners.

Our members, and the industry as a whole, have also benefited greatly from INCOMPAS’ influence and advocacy. INCOMPAS was the lead trade association advocating for the historic bipartisan infrastructure bill that recently became law. With support from former FCC Commissioner Mignon Clyburn and our BroadLand campaign, plus working on a bipartisan basis, we will see a historic investment from the federal government to deploy broadband Internet infrastructure. We have been the principal voice for competition, advocating for the deployment agenda and funding for fiber and broadband networks. We also advocate for broadband business competition, and over the past few years, INCOMPAS has served as a leading advocate for more competition. For example, in the Sprint/T-Mobile merger, we supported the entry of a fourth wireless network built by our member DISH, and in large ISP mergers, INCOMPAS played a central role in developing internet interconnection policy to cultivate and support the explosion of streaming, cloud and other OTT services.

As we move into 2022, INCOMPAS remains centered on the broadband deployment agenda and streaming growth at both the federal and state levels through our BroadLand campaign, 12GHz competition through the 5G for 12GHz Coalition, USF contribution reform, competitive access to residential and commercial multi-tenant environments, and robocalls.

Through our advocacy work, we have created the only association that uniquely combines the interests of next-generation internet content/app, cloud and streaming services with the broadband infrastructure companies building the networks of the future and the companies providing enterprise, mid- and small business competitive broadband services. INCOMPAS has done this by making hard but necessary structural and organizational changes, diversification of the membership, rebranding and repositioning the association, while still maintaining our core identity, mission and purpose of promoting competition.

Now more than ever, it is important for our collective voice to be heard. As the funding programs and broadband deployment opportunities are being implemented by the NTIA and in the states, with new leadership at the FCC and upcoming mid-term elections, we encourage you to engage with us and lend your voice to our advocacy work as you continue building your business through industry connections.

You can get a quick start to engagement by attending the 2022 Policy Summit scheduled for February 8, 2022, in-person in Washington, D.C. This event will give you insight into our advocacy agenda for the coming year, and offer a chance to hear from Congressional leadership and representatives from key federal agencies and state organizations. And, be sure to plan on attending and participating at The 2022 INCOMPAS Show, taking place October 24-26 in Denver.

Again, we thank you for your support over the 40 years that INCOMPAS has had the honor of leading the charge for competition in the communications industry.

Best,

Chip Pickering

CEO, INCOMPAS