Washington, D.C. – The Rural Telecommunications Group, Inc. (RTG), while hardly surprised by yesterday’s announcement that T-Mobile USA, Inc. agreed to be purchased by AT&T, strongly opposes the further consolidation of the wireless industry that [...]
On March 11th, RTG petitioned the FCC to deny the proposed assignment of Qualcomm's lower 700 MHz band licenses to AT&T or in the alternative to condition any such grant in a manner that will [...]
The Rural Telecommunications Group (RTG) filed comments yesterday opposing the proposed transfer of 700 MHz licenses from D&E Investments, Inc. (D&E), a wholly-owned subsidiary of Windstream Corporation (Windstream), to New Cingular Wireless PCS, LLC (New [...]
FCC's approval of the transaction must come with specific conditions The Rural Telecommunications Group, Inc. (“RTG”) is deeply concerned about the anti-competitive affects of AT&T Inc.'s (“AT&T”) proposed acquisition of 700MHz spectrum from Qualcomm Inc. [...]
Washington, DC – Today, in an ex parte notice filed with the Federal Communications Commission (FCC or Commission), RCA (Rural Cellular Association) and RTG (Rural Telecommunications Group) cited specific examples of anticompetitive behavior experienced by [...]
It is short-sighted to ignore the eventuality of both wholly IP-based 3G and 4G mobile networks The Rural Telecommunications Group (RTG) filed comments with the FCC today refuting AT&T's claim that data roaming is not [...]
RTG's General Counsel, Carri Bennet, and Wireless Technical Advisor, Mehran Nazari, met with FCC Commissioner Clyburn's wireless legal advisor to discuss whether priority access should be permissible in the context of data roaming. RTG expressed [...]
On September 2nd, the Fair Roaming Alliance and RTG members issued a letter to the Office of Management and Budget (OMB) which refutes the White House's Business Roundtable and The Business Council’s joint June 21, [...]
Washington, D.C. – The Rural Telecommunications Group, Inc. (RTG), a trade association representing small, rural wireless carriers, applauds the FCC for placing roaming conditions on AT&T and Verizon as part of the approval of AT&T’s [...]
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 [...]