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Supreme Court ruled the USF is constitutional. Now the debate refocuses on reform, and who pays in Broadband-for-all advocates and telecom providers who serve rural areas have spent the last …

CCA’s Mobile Carriers Show kicks off as rural telecom providers face the potential of an ‘asteroid-hitting moment’ in the USF case before SCOTUS With the Competitive Carriers Assocation kicking off …

Commerce Secretary says the program “is in dire need of a readjustment” and emphasized “lowest cost” deployments The U.S. Department of Commerce is going to review the rules surrounding the …

CCA wireless convention discussed 5G, FWA and private wireless AT&T Mobility, T-Mobile and Verizon Wireless may be the nation’s three major national wireless carriers, but there are also countless smaller …

Texas to receive the largest amount: $3.3 billion in federal funds to close the digital divide The Biden administration has announced how it will divvy up $42.5 billion in federal …

CCA’s Donovan: ‘It’s a pretty wild time in wireless’ The Competitive Carriers Association meets this week in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania for its Mobile Carriers Show, amid a policy environment in a …

Failure to fund the FCC rip-and-replace program fully will lead to service shutdowns: Letter to Congress The Competitive Carriers Association and seven other organizations are calling upon Congress to fully …

Rural carriers are weighing the “when” and “how” of the transition to 5G, both in terms of technical issues and business cases. During a carrier panel at the Competitive Carriers …

Tim Donovan, Lucy Hodas will take new CCA leadership positions in January 2023 The Competitive Carriers Association is seeing a shift in leadership: Longtime President and CEO Steve Berry is …

Earlier this week I have a very interesting and I think important conversation with Steve Berry, who is the President and CEO of the Competitive Carriers Association. We discussed the …

T-Mobile US CEO: Driving 5G handset adoption is “strategically important…given the huge lead that we have in 5G” In the 18 months since T-Mobile US completed its merger with Sprint, …

Providing mobile and broadband services in rural America “is not cookie cutter” PHOENIX–In 20 months unlike any others that the telecom industry has dealt with in modern times, small carriers …

Network expansion and upgrades, customer relationships, cybersecurity, fighting robocalls, finding new revenue streams — there’s a lot for small and rural mobile network operators to tackle these days. The Competitive …

The need to invest in rural broadband infrastructure and bridge the digital divide isn’t a new ambition in the U.S. but the critical need for ubiquitous, reliable connectivity has been …

The need to invest in rural broadband infrastructure and bridge the digital divide isn’t a new ambition in the U.S. but the critical need for ubiquitous, reliable connectivity has been …

  What’s going on in rural broadband policy? There are a lot of moving pieces right now: the Rural Digital Opportunities Fund and the proposed Rural 5G Fund, for example, …

CCA CEO: ‘Mobile broadband is an essential component of everyday life” The Federal Communications Commission (FCC) yesterday moved forward with   a Notice of Proposed Rulemaking that would establish a 5G …

Network operators told the FCC that voice has emerged as the “new killer app” In a call this week, wireless and wireline providers told Federal Communications Commission Chairman Ajit Pai …

The list of telecom and tech events which are being cancelled due to the ongoing global outbreaks of novel coronavirus continues to get longer. As of yesterday, the International Wireless …

An important part of a VoLTE strategy is understanding its deployment challenges. From integrating new infrastructure and tools to software compatibility across network functions and devices, VoLTE can be tricky …

GSMA: ‘RCS will create a market worth more than $74 billion by next year’ At the 2019 Competitive Carriers Association Convention last September, Josh Wigginton, VP of product management at …

The CCA convention will have a real theme around a variety of issues related to 5G The Competitive Carriers Association (CCA) annual convention is just around the corner, and CCA …

  The Beatles may have given us the best advice to bringing more mid-band spectrum to deploy 5G services in their chart-topping song, “We Can Work It Out.” With enhanced …

AURORA, COLORADO — The black monopole macro sites and gray small cells went up easily, the architecture shifting seamlessly from LTE to non-standalone 5G New Radio and then to standalone …