The FCC adopted a notice of proposed rulemaking (NPRM) today that seeks comment on previously established plans to use a reverse auction process to award funding to cover some of the costs of making 5G service available in areas where…
Rural Wireless
FCC Aims to Make Millimeter Wave Spectrum Available to Smaller Wireless Providers
The FCC plans to explore whether 500 MHz of millimeter wave spectrum between 42 and 42.5 GHz can be made available to wireless providers on a shared basis. The spectrum could be well suited for use by smaller wireless providers,…
Missouri Offers $20M in Funding for Cell Towers
The final guidelines for the $20 million Missouri Cell Tower Grant Program have been released by the state’s Department of Economic Development (DED). The state will begin accepting applications in the funding program on May 31 and eligible entities have…
T-Mobile CEO Touts Rural Gains, Especially Where it Has a “License to Win”
T-Mobile is seeing substantial success in what the company calls small markets and rural areas that comprise 40% of the U.S. population, said CEO Mike Sievert at an investor conference yesterday. “With each passing quarter, you see a step change…
Defend Our Networks Act Would Fund Huawei Rip and Replace Program
The Defend Our Networks Act, which aims to help rural operators replace equipment from Chinese vendors Huawei and ZTE, was introduced late last week by senators John Hickenlooper (D-CO) and Deb Fischer (R-NE). The bipartisan bill would reallocate about 3% of…
NCTC Taps AT&T for Exclusive MVNO Offering to Rural Provider Members
AT&T will be the exclusive provider of a mobile offering available to rural service providers members of the National Content & Technology Cooperative (NCTC). The deal will enable NCTC members to offer mobile services without having to build their own…
NCTC Partners to Help Telcos Launch Mobile Services
Service providers that are members of buying group National Content & Technology Cooperative will have a new option for offering mobile service as the result of a new deal between NCTC and software-as-a-service (SaaS) provider Reach. The partners aim to…
Redzone Wireless Turns to Tarana for Rural Maine Fixed Wireless Deployment
September 08, 2022 – ROCKLAND, Maine & MILPITAS, Calif.–(BUSINESS WIRE)–Redzone Wireless and Tarana have announced the official launch of Redzone’s next-generation fixed wireless access (ngFWA) network in Litchfield, Maine, covering the town with Tarana’s Gigabit 1 (G1) ngFWA solution to…
Rural Carriers Won’t Even Get Half of What They Need to Rip and Replace Huawei
The FCC today has approved funding for over 80 small carriers and other entities to rip and replace equipment from Huawei and ZTE that has been deemed to be a threat to the security of U.S. communications networks. The funding…
FCC’s ECIP Aims to Get Spectrum in the Hands of Small, Rural, and Tribal Carriers
The FCC voted today to establish an Enhanced Competition Incentive Program (ECIP) that will reward licensees that lease, partition or disaggregate spectrum to small and tribal carriers or to carriers serving rural areas. As a draft order published on the…
AT&T Partners with Other Providers for Navajo Nation FirstNet Network
AT&T said today that it will work with Commnet Broadband, NTUA and NTUA Wireless to expand the FirstNet first responder network to serve the Navajo Nation. As part of the same project, AT&T also will deploy commercial LTE service in…
Wireless Testbed Will Focus on Rural Applications
Ericsson and the National Science Foundation-funded Platforms for Advanced Wireless Research (PAWR) program have struck an agreement under which the vendor will provide its radio access network (RAN) and related equipment and services to the Agriculture and Rural Communities (ARA)…
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