CTIA - THE WIRELESS ASSOCIATION — Federal Lobbying Profile

The register keeps a separate record of this client for every firm that files for it and every spelling of its name. All 37 of its records are shown together here.

Filings

920

Filed by

Reported in-house

$236,118,856

Reported by firms

$40,310,500

These two are not added together. An organisation lobbying for itself reports its own spending, and the firms it retains report what they were paid; the rules ask the first to include the second, but filings do not always do so and a filing gives no way to tell. Each is shown as reported.

Reported lobbying by year

The larger of in-house and firm-reported each year, $ millions 2007 to 2026

Filings

920 filings, newest first.

Filing	Filed by	Amount
3rd Quarter - Report 3rd Quarter 2026	CREST HILL ADVISORS LLC	$20,000 reported
3rd Quarter - Report 3rd Quarter 2026	CTIA-THE WIRELESS ASSOCIATION	$3,940,000 reported
3rd Quarter - Report 3rd Quarter 2026	PHRONESISDC, LLC	$10,000 reported
3rd Quarter - Report 3rd Quarter 2026	AVOQ, LLC	$50,000 reported
3rd Quarter - Report 3rd Quarter 2026	MAYER BROWN LLP	$50,000 reported
3rd Quarter - Report 3rd Quarter 2026	EAST CAPITOL ADVISORS LLC	$30,000 reported
3rd Quarter - Report 3rd Quarter 2026	SHUMAKER ADVISORS, LLC	$60,000 reported
3rd Quarter - Report 3rd Quarter 2026	POLARIS GOVERNMENT RELATIONS, LLC	$50,000 reported
3rd Quarter - Report 3rd Quarter 2026	OGR	$60,000 reported
3rd Quarter - Report 3rd Quarter 2026	FORBES-TATE	$60,000 reported

Filed by

Each firm that has reported for this client, and the client itself where it lobbies in-house, with the reports filed and the amounts they disclose.

Firm	Reports	Amount
CTIA-THE WIRELESS ASSOCIATION In-house	77	$236,118,856
MINTZ LEVIN COHN FERRIS GLOVSKY AND POPEO, P.C.	77	$4,600,000
MAYER BROWN LLP	77	$3,870,000
CAPITOL SOLUTIONS	38	$3,140,000
FORBES-TATE	53	$2,915,000
MERCURY STRATEGIES, LLC	52	$2,770,000
OGR	44	$2,540,000
POLARIS GOVERNMENT RELATIONS, LLC	47	$2,290,000
FIERCE GOVERNMENT RELATIONS	36	$2,130,000
WILEY REIN LLP	24	$1,230,000
JONES GROUP INTERNATIONAL, LLC	25	$1,167,000
AVOQ, LLC	27	$1,160,000
FIERCE, ISAKOWITZ & BLALOCK	20	$1,140,000
WANETA STRATEGIES, LLC	35	$1,050,000
ALPINE ADVISORS	15	$880,000
RYAN MACKINNON VASAPOLI AND BERZOK, LLP	11	$880,000
BL PARTNERS GROUP, LLC	21	$870,000
SHUMAKER ADVISORS, LLC	15	$855,000
BROWNSTEIN HYATT FARBER SCHRECK, LLP	11	$810,000
CAUTHEN FORBES & WILLIAMS	14	$760,000
ORIGIN ADVOCACY LLC	16	$661,000
WEST FRONT STRATEGIES LLC	14	$660,000
S-3 GROUP	11	$590,000
TELEMEDIA POLICY CORP.	14	$557,500
HSA STRATEGIES	12	$475,000
UTRECHT & PHILLIPS, PLLC	8	$400,000
EAST CAPITOL ADVISORS LLC	13	$380,000
PALMETTO GROUP	10	$360,000
FARRAGUT PARTNERS LLP	9	$350,000
HILLNORTH LLC	7	$262,500
MILLER STRATEGIES, LLC	3	$160,000
CREST HILL ADVISORS LLC	7	$142,500
ACG ADVOCACY	2	$110,000
THE MACON EDWARDS COMPANY	2	$60,000
DELTA STRATEGY GROUP	2	$60,000
CONVERGENCE STRATEGIES, LLC	1	$15,000
PHRONESISDC, LLC	1	$10,000

Issues lobbied

How many report sections named each issue, counting the current version of each report.

Issue	Code	Mentions
Telecommunications	TEC	760
Taxation/Internal Revenue Code	TAX	225
Budget/Appropriations	BUD	131
Communications/Broadcasting/Radio/TV	COM	129
Consumer Issues/Safety/Products	CSP	78
Transportation	TRA	60
Defense	DEF	57
Law Enforcement/Crime/Criminal Justice	LAW	49
Copyright/Patent/Trademark	CPT	46
Computer Industry	CPI	28
Environment/Superfund	ENV	23
Homeland Security	HOM	22
Aviation/Airlines/Airports	AVI	10
Agriculture	AGR	9
Government Issues	GOV	7

Bills named in its filings

Bill numbers found in the filers' descriptions, most often named first.

Bill	Congress	Times named
H.R. 1521	111th	41
H.R. 690	111th	35
H.R. 3684	117th	32
H.R. 560	111th	31
H.R. 3125	111th	30
H.R. 1643	114th	29
S. 144	111th	29
S. 1080	118th	27
S. 851	114th	27
S. 1682	115th	26
S. 911	112th	25
H.R. 1002	112th	25
S. 543	112th	25
H.R. 1353	118th	23
H.R. 1123	113th	23
S. 1235	113th	23
H.R. 658	112th	23
S. 971	112th	23
H.R. 3458	111th	23
H.R. 5376	117th	22
S. 649	111th	22
H.R. 3949	118th	21
H.R. 748	116th	21
H.R. 2309	113th	21
S. 251	111th	21

From reports filed under the Lobbying Disclosure Act. Firms report what each client paid them; an organisation lobbying for itself reports its own expenses. Amounts count the current version of each report once.