Competitive Carriers Association (CCA)

The game of musical chairs among trade shows continued today as PCIA announced it was moving its annual get together from its traditional fall date to the spring for next …

NEW ORLEANS – Regional wireless operator C Spire has been one of the more aggressive smaller operators in rolling out LTE services, having last year launched services using its own …

NEW ORLEANS – In a move that could jumpstart a fallow LTE roaming market, Sprint Nextel CEO Dan Hesse told attendees at this week’s Competitive Carriers Association event that the …

NEW ORLEANS – As the carrier that got the whole “4G” marketing fad started with its WiMAX service in 2008, Sprint Nextel has seen that “lead” reversed as many of …

RCR Wireless takes a look at the regulatory challenges facing the wireless industry, including spectrum issues, potential for additional spectrum auctions, regulations on the second-hand spectrum market, M&A regulations and …

RCR Wireless News Editor-in-Chief Dan Meyer was joined by esteemed guests, including long-time industry analysts Roger Entner, former FCC Commissioner Harold Furchtgott-Roth, former Senior Attorney with the Competition Division in …

For those of us old enough to remember, there was a time when you couldn’t buy a corded, rotary phone. Instead, you had to lease your phone from Ma Bell. After divestiture, customers were given the options

Updated with comments from the Competitive Carrier Association and CTIA. Wireless industry trade association CTIA announced plans to simplify its current trade show schedule beginning in 2014, with plans to …

The Federal Communications Commission can compel commercial wireless carriers to provide data roaming arrangements, according to a ruling by the U.S.Court of Appeals for the District of Columbia Circuit in …

Are spectrum caps set to make a comeback? They are if some rural trade associations have their way. The Rural Telecommunications Group this week filed comments with the Federal Communications …

The Federal Communications Commission has put U.S. spectrum policy on a path to the world’s first incentive spectrum auction to repurpose broadcast television spectrum for mobile broadband use. But broadcasters …

This week reinforced to me that a real competition is not really real unless there are more than two involved. Sure, a boxing match is usually just between two combatants, and many sporting events take place between two teams,

LAS VEGAS – If one thing was evident coming out of this week’s Competitive Carriers Association event in Las Vegas – besides a strong distaste for Verizon Wireless and AT&T …

LAS VEGAS – The hotly competitive nature of the mobile space was clearly evident at this week’s Competitive Carrier Association Annual Convention in Las Vegas where few attending carriers passed …

Scheduled conveniently ahead of next week’s Competitive Carrier Association event, Verizon Wireless this week kicked off its second LTE in Rural America program. The event is designed to bring together …