NTCA and RTG Provide FCC With Additional Evidence That Inter-carrier Voice and Data Roaming Rates Are Grossly Anticompetitive The Rural Telecommunications Group, Inc. (RTG) and the National Telecommunications Cooperative Association (NTCA) today filed an ex [...]
The Federal Communications Commission said Tuesday that it’s accepting comments on a petition that seeks to have Internet-to-phone text messaging declared a type of autodialing. The technology, which collects cell numbers without consent and then [...]
The following statement can be attributed to Carri Bennet, RTG’s General Counsel: SoftBank’s strategic investment in Sprint is a welcome move. Just as in Japan (where it took over a lagging 3rd-place Vodafone and made [...]
ClearSky Technologies, Inc., a leading provider of mobile data services to regional wireless carriers, announced the signing of a multi-year agreement with Cellular One of Northeast Arizona for Total Traffic Manager (TTM). In order to [...]
Rural Consumers Benefit the Most from Rural Carriers Building Out 3G and 4G Networks The Rural Telecommunications Group, Inc. (RTG) applauds the Federal Communications Commission (FCC or Commission) on the success of Mobility Fund Phase [...]
Combined Company Provides an LTE-based Alternative to AT&T and Verizon The following statement can be attributed to Carri Bennet, RTG’s General Counsel: By merging their assets, T-Mobile and MetroPCS will be able to provide a [...]
Under the agreements, Leap acquired 10 MHz of additional AWS spectrum in Phoenix, AZ and Houston, Galveston and Bryan-College Station, TX to supplement the spectrum Leap currently operates in those markets, among others. Leap and [...]
“It is no coincidence that immediately after the FCC scuttled its previously-imposed spectrum caps a decade ago, the mobile wireless industry entered into a phase of hyper-consolidation that has winnowed down the choice of service [...]
WINS Ltd. launches telecommunications services to multiple fleets Pario Solutions, Inc., a leader in 2G/3G/LTE hosted mobile services, has enabled WINS Ltd. of the Republic of Malta, to deploy mobile data services on fleets of [...]
Incentive Auctions, Combined With a Revision of Spectrum Aggregation Criteria,Will Lead to Greater Competition The Rural Telecommunications Group, Inc. (“RTG”) is greatly encouraged by the Federal Communications Commission’s (FCC or Commission) announcement today that it [...]