CTIA Press Release | Feb. 10, 2025
Spectrum for Broadband Competition launches ‘End the Cableopoly’ campaign to highlight
cable industry attempts to starve competition of the spectrum needed to expand access
WASHINGTON, D.C. FEBRUARY 10 – Spectrum for Broadband Competition launched today,
bringing together a coalition of industry leaders to advocate for spectrum policies that foster
increased competition, consumer choice and innovation in the home broadband market. The
coalition also launched its first campaign, ‘End the Cableopoly,’ highlighting the cable industry’s
attempts to undermine competition from 5G home broadband by starving wireless providers of
the spectrum needed to expand access and help close the digital divide. The coalition’s
founding members include 5G Americas and CTIA.
“We are excited to join the Spectrum for Broadband Competition coalition and work alongside
industry leaders to expand access to the licensed spectrum necessary to bring increased
competition to America’s home broadband market,” said Viet Nguyen, President, 5G Americas.
“This competition is critical to ensuring all consumers benefit from having real choice in home
broadband.”
For decades cable companies have avoided real competition and carved up the country into
regional monopolies. This lack of competition has resulted in poor service and wide gaps in
coverage.
Today, thanks to the more than $215 billion wireless providers have invested to expand their
networks and offer new 5G home broadband service, consumers are benefiting from real
competition and choice. Consumers are more than 8 times more likely to recommend 5G home
broadband than cable, and over the past three years, 99 percent of all net new broadband
subscribers chose 5G.
In response, the cable industry has launched a massive influence campaign designed to block
wireless companies from gaining access to new spectrum needed to expand competition and
offer service to more Americans. Spectrum for Broadband Competition will focus on countering
these efforts by highlighting the cable industry’s anti-competitive behavior and advocating for
policies that foster increased home broadband market competition.
“We are proud to join this coalition to ensure that all Americans benefit from the better service
that comes with real broadband choice,” said Nick Ludlum, SVP and Chief Communications
Officer, CTIA. “As consumers flock to 5G home broadband, policymakers must see the cable
industry’s attempts to preserve their monopolies for what they are and act now to preserve the
first real home broadband competition that many Americans have ever had.”
To learn more about Spectrum for Broadband Competition, visit www.endthecableopoly.org.
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Spectrum for Broadband Competition is an industry coalition advocating for the importance of
licensed spectrum to advance home broadband competition, consumer choice and innovation.
