The Rural Wireless Association was recently mentioned in a Wall Street Journal story entitled, “Huawei, Seen as Possible Spy Threat, Boomed Despite U.S. Warnings.” The story features RWA Associate Member Huawei, and quotes former RWA [...]
Washington, D.C., – The Rural Wireless Association, Inc. (“RWA”) welcomes the Trump administration’s focus on rural broadband deployment and infrastructure siting. The President’s action recognizes that broadband access in rural areas is critical to ensuring [...]
Washington, D.C., – The Rural Wireless Association, Inc. (“RWA”) filed Comments in response to several proposed changes to the rules governing Priority Access Licenses (“PALs”) in the Citizens Broadband Radio Service (“CBRS”) band. Viewed favorably [...]
Washington, D.C., – The following statement can be attributed to Rural Wireless Association, Inc. (“RWA”) General Counsel, Carri Bennet: “RWA respectfully disagrees with the Commission on the point of rewarding Bresnan in this case. Bresnan [...]
The Rural Wireless Association has named Shilah Butler to its Board of Directors as a carrier member representative. Butler is Senior Manager of Affiliate Operations for Copper Valley Telecom, which provides residential and business telephone, [...]
Wireless technology pioneer, rural advocate, and humanitarian Vanu Bose passed away on November 11 of a sudden pulmonary embolism at age 52. RWA’s members, board of directors, and staff mourn this tremendously difficult loss. Bose [...]
Rural consumers are breathing a sigh of relief upon news that T-Mobile USA, Inc. ("T-Mobile") and Sprint Corp. ("Sprint") have walked away from a potential merger. Six years ago, RWA stood on the right side [...]
Washington, D.C., November 6, 2017 - The following statement may be attributed to Carri Bennet, the Rural Wireless Association's ("RWA") General Counsel: Rural consumers are breathing a sigh of relief upon news that T-Mobile USA, [...]
Fort Worth, TX - October 24, 2017 - NewCore Wireless, RINA Wireless, Central LTE Holdings, STRATA Networks, West Central Wireless and Trilogy Networks today announced a working relationship of technology leaders who are collaborating to [...]
Washington, D.C., – The Rural Wireless Association has joined the Broadband Access Coalition, a group of 30+ broadband providers, technology companies, trade associations, and non-profit public advocacy groups working to close the digital divide by [...]