Cites Evidence of Collusion in Cable Deals The Rural Telecommunications Group’s (RTG) has filed with the Federal Communications Commission (FCC) two separate petitions to deny pending license sales to Verizon Wireless. RTG’s first petition to [...]
The Rural Telecommunications Group’s (RTG) reply comments submitted today in the Federal Communications Commission’s Phase II Mobility Fund proceeding emphasize that any decision prior to completion of Phase I on how to award Mobility Fund [...]
Existing Mobile Voice and Broadband Carriers Must be Protected in Rural Areas The Rural Telecommunications Group (RTG), in response to the Federal Communications Commission's Further Notice of Proposed Rulemaking seeking input on what rules to [...]
Qualcomm Deal Must Wait Until T-Mobile Deal Fully Resolved Today, the Rural Telecommunications Group (RTG) requested that the FCC withhold taking any action on the AT&T/Qualcomm applications pending final resolution of the AT&T/T-Mobile transaction. Earlier [...]
Washington, DC - Today, the Rural Telecommunications Group (RTG), filed Reply Comments in the Federal Communications Commission’s Universal Service Reform proceeding chastising incumbent Local Exchange Carriers (ILECs) for not developing a true industry consensus and [...]
Today, RTG filed comments with the Federal Communications Commission expressing concern with the so-called “industry consensus” proposal submitted by the Rural Associations and USTelecom. “These wireline industry-developed proposals are not a product of any overall [...]
The FCC adopted a Notice of Inquiry (NOI) seeking comment on strengthening the reliability and resiliency of America’s communications networks, particularly in light of the recent earthquake and tsunami in Japan. The NOI invited comment [...]
RTG, Verizon Wireless and Vulcan Wireless filed comments with the FCC yesterday (July 28th) opposing the application of CW Television Stations Inc. (“CW”) for a displacement construction permit to move Station K62FS (Port Townsend, WA) [...]
Washington, D.C. – Today, the Rural Telecommunications Group, Inc. (RTG) filed its reply responding to AT&T’s opposition to RTG’s petition to deny the proposed AT&T/T-Mobile merger. Since it first announced to the world on March [...]
AT&T has recently launched a campaign to acquire radio licenses, the two most visible are AT&T’s application to acquire 700 MHz licenses from Qualcomm and its separate application to acquire spectrum from T-Mobile. Because of [...]