A group of states and wireless carriers are still challenging the merger of T-Mobile and Sprint, despite the merger's approval from the Justice Department. Listen to this National Public Radio (NPR) story from July 27, [...]
Today, at a press conference held at the New York State Attorney General’s Office in New York City, the Rural Wireless Association stood in support of the New York Attorney General’s lawsuit to block the [...]
RWA filed comments that will help the FCC draft the Nineteenth Annual Report on the state of competition in mobile wireless services. In its comments, RWA focuses on specific trends in mobile wireless network deployment [...]
You Can Win AT&T and Verizon Wireless Customers Download Details Many small, regional wireless carriers face competition with Verizon Wireless (VZW) and/or AT&T. But in most cases you can be successful in your market [...]
Not all spectrum is created equal. Low-band spectrum – spectrum below 1 GHz – has unique propagation characteristics that make it very valuable to mobile wireless carriers. Carriers refer to this spectrum as “beachfront” spectrum [...]
RWA filed five petitions in response to the Copyright Office's Sixth Triennial Review of exemptions to the Digital Millennium Copyright Act (DMCA) that allow consumers to unlock their mobile wireless devices. While Congress adopted a [...]
Reply Comment Extension Granted in T-Mobile Data Roaming Proceeding The FCC has granted the joint request filed by RWA, NTCA-the Rural Broadband Association and the Blooston Rural Carriers seeking an extension of the reply comment [...]
The announcement over the weekend that AT&T seeks to takeover Leap Wireless (Cricket) is a clear sign that whatever vestiges of competition existed between nationwide carriers and competitive carriers in the past have now all [...]
Pending DTV Spectrum Auction Necessitates FCC Policy Allowing Broad Carrier Access to Valuable Low Band Spectrum The Rural Telecommunications Group, Inc. (RTG) and numerous wireless operators, industry associations and public interest organizations have submitted a [...]
The Rural Telecommunications Group, Inc. (RTG) and its members are disappointed, but not surprised, that the Federal Communications Commission (FCC or Commission) was unable to make a formal finding in its Sixteenth Report as to whether there [...]