CTIA: THE WIRELESS ASSOCIATION

Lobbying client · District of Columbia · filed 2025 to 2026

Wireless Telecommunications Association

$39,647,500 Reported spend

143 Filings counted

20 Outside firms hired

117 Bills named

Spend is reported income plus in-house expenses across 143 filings. 1 further filing for this client was restated by a later amendment and is left out of every total here. The LDA keeps a separate client record for every registrant that files for a client, so this page adds up 21 records, one per registrant listed below. Records are combined when the client name matches once case, punctuation and endings such as Inc. or LLC are set aside; for a city, county or port the state has to match as well. These filings have also been reported as CTIA - THE WIRELESS ASSOCIATION, CTIA THE WIRELESS ASSOCIATION, CTIA-THE WIRELESS ASSOCIATION.

Who filed for this client 21

CTIA-THE WIRELESS ASSOCIATION $33,350,000 In-house, the client's own filings · 7 filings
BROWNSTEIN HYATT FARBER SCHRECK, LLP $540,000 Outside firm · 7 filings
ALPINE ADVISORS $420,000 Outside firm · 7 filings
FORBES-TATE $420,000 Outside firm · 7 filings
MINTZ LEVIN COHN FERRIS GLOVSKY AND POPEO, P.C. $420,000 Outside firm · 7 filings
OGR $420,000 Outside firm · 7 filings
S-3 GROUP $420,000 Outside firm · 8 filings
SHUMAKER ADVISORS, LLC $420,000 Outside firm · 8 filings
AVOQ, LLC $350,000 Outside firm · 7 filings
BL PARTNERS GROUP, LLC $350,000 Outside firm · 7 filings
MAYER BROWN LLP $350,000 Outside firm · 7 filings
MERCURY STRATEGIES, LLC $350,000 Outside firm · 7 filings
POLARIS GOVERNMENT RELATIONS, LLC $350,000 Outside firm · 7 filings
ORIGIN ADVOCACY LLC $330,000 Outside firm · 7 filings
TELEMEDIA POLICY CORP. $307,500 Outside firm · 8 filings
HILLNORTH LLC $262,500 Outside firm · 8 filings
EAST CAPITOL ADVISORS LLC $210,000 Outside firm · 7 filings
WANETA STRATEGIES, LLC $210,000 Outside firm · 7 filings
CREST HILL ADVISORS LLC $142,500 Outside firm · 9 filings
CONVERGENCE STRATEGIES, LLC $15,000 Outside firm · 2 filings
PHRONESISDC, LLC $10,000 Outside firm · 2 filings

Spend per registrant: fees an outside firm reported, or the costs the client reported for lobbying in-house. The rows add up to the total above.

Bills named in these filings top 30 of 117

H.R. 1
One Big Beautiful Bill Act

13 filings
H.R. 3577
END CELLS Act

12 filings
H.R. 651
Spectrum Pipeline Act of 2025

12 filings
H.R. 3353
Lieutenant Osvaldo Albarati Stopping Prison Contraband Act

11 filings
S. 3639
SAT Streamlining Act

9 filings
S. 736
Lieutenant Osvaldo Albarati Stopping Prison Contraband Act

9 filings
H.R. 2350
Cellphone Jamming Reform Act of 2025

8 filings
S. 1337
Cybersecurity Information Sharing Extension Act

8 filings
S. 2296
National Defense Authorization Act for Fiscal Year 2026

8 filings
S. 836
Children and Teens’ Online Privacy Protection Act

8 filings
H.R. 8800
National Defense Authorization Act for Fiscal Year 2027

7 filings
S. 4784
National Defense Authorization Act for Fiscal Year 2027

7 filings
S. 725
Enhancing First Response Act

7 filings
H.R. 2289
American Broadband Deployment Act of 2025

6 filings
H.R. 2449
FUTURE Networks Act

6 filings
H.R. 2784
Stopping the Theft and Destruction of Broadband Act of 2025

6 filings
H.R. 3921
STOP CSAM Act of 2025

6 filings
H.R. 4669
FEMA Act of 2025

6 filings
H.R. 7022
Mystic Alerts Act

6 filings
S. 1137
Cellphone Jamming Reform Act of 2025

6 filings
S. 1748
Kids Online Safety Act

6 filings
S. 1829
STOP CSAM Act of 2025

6 filings
S. 2666
Foreign Robocall Elimination Act

6 filings
S. 3495
Artificial Intelligence Scam Prevention Act

6 filings
H. Con. Res. 14
Establishing the congressional budget for the United States Government for fiscal year 2025 and setting forth…

5 filings
H.R. 3838
Streamlining Procurement for Effective Execution and Delivery and National Defense Authorization Act for Fisc…

5 filings
S. 2316
Cooper Davis and Devin Norring Act

5 filings
S. 3199
988 Lifeline Location Improvement Act of 2026

5 filings
S. 503
NET Act

5 filings
S. Con. Res. 7
An original concurrent resolution setting forth the congressional budget for the United States Government for…

5 filings

Reported by year 2 years

2026 $17,435,000 61 filings
2025 $22,212,500 82 filings

Issues lobbied 13

Telecommunications 122
Communications/Broadcasting/Radio/TV 31
Defense 21
Consumer Issues/Safety/Products 14
Budget/Appropriations 12
Taxation/Internal Revenue Code 11
Law Enforcement/Crime/Criminal Justice 8
Computer Industry 7
Intelligence 4
Disaster Planning/Emergencies 3
Transportation 2
Homeland Security 1
Manufacturing 1

The count is how many filings named that issue area. A filing reports one lump figure covering every issue on it, so the money above cannot be split between them.

Agencies and chambers lobbied 9

SENATE 125
HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES 124
Federal Communications Commission (FCC) 21
Executive Office of the President (EOP) 16
Commerce, Dept of (DOC) 10
Natl Economic Council (NEC) 1
Office of Management & Budget (OMB) 1
Veterans Affairs, Dept of (VA) 1
White House Office 1

Recent filings 144 total

Q3 report

MERCURY STRATEGIES, LLC

3rd Quarter 2026 (July 1 - Sep 30) · House · Senate · $50,000 income · posted Nov 9, 2026