The Verizon Rural LTE program helped Bluegrass deploy LTE in a timely fashion by letting the company lease Verizon spectrum, use…
Verizon rural LTE program participants now have deployed the service in 15 states, covering a combined area the size of Colorado, lighting up over 1,000 cell sites
Shentel will acquire NTELOS in a regional wireless deal that includes heavy involvement from Sprint. The transaction includes spectrum sales to Sprint and…
A rural spectrum bill introduced in the U.S. Senate aims to motivate large wireless carriers to lease spectrum to smaller rural carriers by offering . . .
Large corporations were the main small AWS-3 license winners, carrying away the majority of cellular marketing area (CMA) licenses intended for small companies.
Verizon rural partners can lease the company’s AWS-1 spectrum to support XLTE service. The carrier also wants rural partners to deploy VoLTE.
Sprint will partner with the Competitive Carriers Association and NetAmerica to expand rural 4G LTE and will allow rural carriers to . . .
Buggs Island Telephone Cooperative Joins NetAmerica
FCC authorizes release of additional funds from the $300 million Mobility Fund Phase I auction.
The Verizon LTE in Rural America program has added another partner — KPU Telecommunications of Ketchikan, Alaska. KPU is a municipally owned FTTH triple…
Bluegrass Cellular adds fixed broadband wireless LTE service using lower 700 MHz spectrum. The company already offers mobile LTE as a Verizon Wireless LTE in Rural America partner.
NewCore Wireless will help small wireless operators with LTE deployments. Carriers can avoid purchasing an LTE switch by using NewCore’s.
MTPCS, LLC, d.b.a. Cellular One, is the latest participant in Verizon’s LTE in Rural America program, which is designed to
Two more participants in Verizon Wireless’s LTE in Rural America program – Bluegrass Cellular and Strata Networks — have launched or will soon launch 4G LTE.
Though 90% of Competitive Carriers Association (CCA) members have either already implemented or plan to implement LTE, they’ll continue to use TDM…
Space Data will use a 4G LTE offering from Lemko designed for use in remote rural areas that eliminates the need for costly core network infrastructure.
West Central Wireless deployed an Alcatel-Lucent 4G LTE packet core, which it will share with other operators on a wholesale basis.
Bend Broadband will be the first Tier 3 carrier not in Verizon’s LTE in Rural America program to launch LTE.
NetAmerica research found that 87% of rural residents believe local access to well-performing technology is economically vital. 2/3 say Internet
Pioneer Cellular today became the first Verizon Wireless LTE in Rural America (LRA) program partner to launch 4G LTE service, which is now available in
Verizon says 2/3 of the U.S. population will be covered by its 4G LTE service on April 19th–a reality that potentially threatens rural carriers.
Verizon plans to sell its A and B block 700 MHz spectrum holdings if its plan to acquire AWS spectrum from four cable companies is approved.