The FCC has issued an NPRM that provides details regarding the implementation of Verizon Wireless’s and Sprint Nextel’s commitments to surrender high-cost universal service support as required by the FCC when it approved their respective [...]
Please click here for a copy of the comments. These comments demonstrate that: marketplace hyper-consolidation has increased provider concentration and decreased competition; spectrum scarcity and the absence of a spectrum cap have stifled new market [...]
RTG Says plan runs afoul of Title II and Section 254 of the Communications Act and will harm rural businesses and rural America Washington, DC - The Rural Telecommunications Group, Inc. (RTG) filed comments supporting [...]
Washington, D.C. – The Rural Telecommunications Group, Inc. (RTG), a trade association representing small, rural wireless carriers, filed comments with the Federal Communications Commission (FCC) stating that the FCC has the authority to require automatic [...]
Click here for a copy of the letter filed on May 24th withdrawing RTG's position on in-market roaming from RTG’s Petition for Reconsideration in the Alltel/Verizon merger. RTG reiterates its remaining positions on data roaming, [...]
RTG seeks to have handset devices manufactured so that they operate across the 700 MHz bands not just in the band classes utilized by Verizon Wireless and AT&T. Click here for a copy of RTG’s [...]
On November 10, 2009, RTG, FiberTower, Sprint Nextel, Alcatel-Lucent and COMPTEL met with Paul de Sa (Chief, Office of Strategic Planning and Policy Analysis), David Goldman (acting legal advisor to Chairman Genachowski), and Stagg Newman, [...]
RTG’s comments are focused on the issues outlined by the Universal Service Administrative Company (USAC) that most affect RTG’s rural, wireless competitive eligible telecommunications carrier (ETC) membership. Specifically, RTG opposes retroactive punishment of ETCs that [...]
The FCC should re-evaluate the quality of the source data used to reach conclusions regarding market areas actually served by CMRS operators, because using faulty data will distort the competitive analysis. Additionally, the Commission should [...]
RTG filed comments on the Petition for Rulemaking filed by CTIA-The Wireless Association (CTIA) requesting that the FCC initiate a rulemaking to transition cellular licensing from a system based on site licenses to geographic market-area [...]