Opposes the fund's use as a “bone” to rural wireless carriers to replace high-cost support The Rural Telecommunications Group (RTG) filed comments yesterday regarding the FCC's proposed Mobility Fund. In its Mobility Fund NPRM, the [...]
Banking reclaimed high cost support will hurt wireless competition and consumers The Rural Telecommunications Group (RTG) filed comments with the FCC today addressing the issues raised by various parties in the FCC's Corr Wireless proceeding. [...]
RTG is concerned that the FCC’s inclusion of 4G services in its proposed Mobility Fund, when many areas of the country currently lack 3G services, is overly ambitious considering the limited size of the proposed [...]
RTG filed comments yesterday opposing the FCC’s vague plan to direct USAC to "reclaim" high-cost support for some sort of broadband general fund for undetermined use at an undetermined time in the future. RTG argues [...]
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 [...]
RTG met with the FCC's Wireless Telecommunications Bureau and the Wireline Competition Bureau on the creation of a Mobility Fund as recommended in the National Broadband Plan (NBP). RTG emphasized the fact that this is [...]
Congressman Boucher (D-VA), Chairman of the Subcommittee on Communications, Technology, and the Internet, and Congressman Terry (R-NE) introduced the Universal Service Reform Act of 2010. Contact James Mardis for an overview of the bill.
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 [...]
As one of the first steps in the National Broadband Plan (NBP), the FCC has released a Notice of Inquiry (NOI) and a Notice of Proposed Rulemaking (NPRM) proposing to decimate the current, high-cost universal [...]
Washington, D.C. – The Rural Telecommunications Group, Inc. (RTG), a trade association representing small, rural wireless carriers, supports the Federal Communications Commission (FCC) and its actions today that further support healthy competition in the wireless [...]