FAQ's About NIA
What is NIA?
The National ITFS Association (NIA) is the professional association for those institutions who hold and EBS (formerly ITFS) license.
The membership is composed of representatives from K12, post secondary and other education-related non-profit entities, many of whom have operated EBS systems for a number of years.
NIA members share information with one another and the association organizes a annual conference each year, typically in February, to discuss issues of importance to members.
NIA Background
The National ITFS Association (NIA), a non-profit corporation,
was established in 1978 to provide an avenue for communication
among the educational institutions and non-profit organizations
that held licenses in the Instructional Televisions Fixed
spectrum band.
Its initial roles were to provide a forum for members to
exchange information concerning successful educational
applications of ITFS and to monitor Federal Communications
Commission actions affecting the spectrum.
In the mid-1980’s, intensified commercial interest in using the
ITFS spectrum led NIA to take a more active role as an advocate
at the FCC for all ITFS licensees. Since that time NIA has filed
numerous pleadings before the Commission seeking to insure that
the continuing rights of ITFS licensees to use their spectrum
for education, and that commercial applications of ITFS provide
substantial benefit to licensees and to education.
NIA was the leading advocate for education in the FCC Rule
making which has led to the revision of the FCC Rules, the
realignment of the ITFS spectrum to facilitate two-way digital
wireless broadband services, and the FCC’s change of name for
the spectrum to the Educational Broadband Service (EBS)
As NIA approaches its thirtieth year of service it continues to
advocate for the educational use of the ITFS spectrum, to
represent the interests of ITFS licensees at the FCC, and to
provide an expanded forum for exchange of information and advice
on the new technologies, new educational applications, and
commercial relationships.
To provide the means to accomplish those goals the Association,
employs FCC Counsel in Washington, D.C., maintains the NIA
ListServ which it makes available to all with ITFS interests and
conducts an Annual Meeting in which experts in the fields of FCC
Rules, education, and technologies provide attendees with the
most current information and developments in their fields.
Please Note:
The National ITFS Association is being renamed to the National EBS Association due to a change in the nomenclature used by the FCC to describe the spectrum set aside for education.
And, hopefully the change for NIA Members will be transparent. Current NIA Members became NEBSA Members effective January 1, 2008.
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Clermont, FL 34712-1475
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