The nation’s largest wireless carriers offer lower data pricing to their own retail customers than they do to their smaller carrier wholesale roaming partners, according to two small carrier associations. The Rural Telecommunications Group and the National Telecommunications Cooperative Association…
Big national cable players have a legacy of joining forces for the common good. They have great successes, CableLabs as an example, and notable failures, Pivot Wireless comes to mind. The latest effort involves harnessing and leveraging the growing appetite…
The FCC plans next week to tackle a couple of issues that could have a big impact on the competitiveness of the nation’s wireless telecom industry. On the agenda for the FCC monthly meeting on Wednesday, March 21, are a…
Bloomberg is reporting that the FCC is expected to begin a rulemaking process by midyear that could require manufacturers of 700 MHz handsets to make those devices interoperable across all 700 MHz spectrum bands, including bands used by smaller and…
Sprint stirred up trouble last week when it made the unprecedented move of advising customers that it would be reducing its coverage area in Kansas and Oklahoma and relying more heavily on roaming agreements to support service in those areas….
AT&T and the Rural Telecommunications Group are trading accusations against each other related to roaming charges. Both organizations sent letters to the FCC last month outlining their positions. RTG, which represents rural wireless carriers, shared both letters with Telecompetitor—and although…
RESTON, Va., August 8, 2011 – LightSquared™, the nation’s first wholesale-only integrated 4G-LTE wireless broadband and satellite network, and ClearTalk Wireless, a leading provider of flat-rate wireless phone services in the Southwest and West, have entered into a 4G bilateral…
Not surprisingly, Verizon Wireless on Friday appealed the wireless data roaming order issued by the FCC in April. The carrier used some familiar arguments in its appeal—noting, for example that the data roaming order “is in excess of the Commission’s…
RESTON, Va., April 21, 2011 – LightSquared™, the nation’s first, wholesale-only integrated 4G-LTE wireless broadband and satellite network, and SI Wireless, a partnership of rural independent telephone companies, delivering 3G-CDMA/EVDO technology to rural parts of Illinois, Kentucky and Tennessee, have…
RESTON, Va., April 20, 2011 – LightSquared™, the nation’s first, wholesale-only integrated 4G-LTE wireless broadband and satellite network, and Cellular South, the nation’s largest privately owned wireless communications provider, have entered into a bilateral roaming agreement. This agreement will provide…
As Tier 2 and Tier 3 wireless operators had hoped, the FCC today adopted an order requiring wireless carriers to enter into data roaming agreements at the request of other carriers. The FCC stopped short of setting prices; instead it…
The exploding use of mobile broadband devices with Wi-Fi connectivity is driving the Wi-Fi alliance towards some important innovations. Carriers are more than happy to hand off broadband hungry devices off their cellular networks to ubiquitous Wi-Fi networks. Enhanced network…
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