RTG's General Counsel, Carri Bennet, issued the following statement: “RTG fully supports Sprint Nextel’s lawsuit seeking to enjoin AT&T from taking over T-Mobile. The removal of T-Mobile from the mobile wireless marketplace is thoroughly anticompetitive, [...]
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, David Neumark, professor of Economics and director of the Center for Economics and Public Policy at the University of California at Irvine, released an independent analysis debunking assertions made by AT&T that its proposed [...]
Today, the Department of Justice has sued to block AT&T's acquisition of T-Mobile. RTG's General Counsel, Carri Bennet, issued the following statement: "DOJ’s pre-Labor Day decision (less than 4 months after AT&T filed to acquire [...]
WASHINGTON – Today the Federal Communications Commission restarted its shot clock at day 83 for the AT&T/T-Mobile merger review. AT&T is on its fourth down with the fatally flawed submission of its fourth and final [...]
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 [...]
Consolidation Reduces Consumer Choice; Deters Large Carriers From Deploying Rural 4G AT&T’s proposed takeover of T-Mobile will destroy jobs, frustrate innovation, and thwart deployment in rural America for years to come. President Obama recently signed [...]
RTG Dismayed But Not Surprised That AT&T Admits To $3.8B Price Tag To Cover 55 Million Additional Americans With LTE Long-time suspicions of the Rural Telecommunications Group (RTG) were confirmed yesterday after an unredacted version [...]
Puget Sound Is Home To Over 3,300 T-Mobile At-Risk Jobs The Rural Telecommunications Group (RTG) applauds Rep. Jay Inslee’s (Washington’s 1st District) announcement earlier today that the Federal Communications Commission should conduct a public “field [...]
The Rural Telecommunications Group (RTG) heartily supports the decision of the Federal Communications Commission to stop its informal 180 day timeline for reviewing the proposed AT&T/Qualcomm transaction and instead review the applications “in a coordinated [...]