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 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…
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…
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…
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…
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…
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…
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 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…
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)…
Washington, D.C. – Today, the Rural Wireless Association (RWA) released its Open RAN Resource Guide (Guide) which is designed to help RWA members navigate the Open RAN landscape. The Guide, coordinated by RWA’s Technology Committee, is available to the public and…
Thayne, WY April 19, 2022 – Silver Star announced today that the company would discontinue its cellular service in Star Valley, WY, effective December 30, 2022. In 2005 Silver Star began offering cellular service to fill a need in the…
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