WASHINGTON-The Federal Communications Commission and Congress may have differing opinions on upcoming auctions of third-generation and digital TV spectrum, warned the Rural Telecommunications Group. RTG said the FCC's idea of allowing combinatorial bidding could go against Congress' wishes that spectrum be made available to...
WASHINGTON-The Federal Communications Commission and Congress may have differing opinions on upcoming auctions of third-generation and digital TV spectrum, warned the Rural Telecommunications Group late Monday. RTG said the FCC's idea of allowing combinatorial bidding could go against Congress' wishes that spectrum be made...
WASHINGTON-The Federal Communications Commission next week is expected to approve a band plan for third-generation wireless services, a ruling with major implications for incumbent mobile-phone operators of all sizes, potential new entrants and the U.S. Treasury. Deciding how to configure the 3G band-the 1710-1755...
SAN DIEGO-Cellular One of Amarillo signed a multi-year agreement to offer One Voice Technologies Inc.'s MobileVoice service that includes voice-dialing, group conference calling, reading and sending e-mail messages and voice-to-text messaging. Financial terms of the agreement were not released.One Voice recently signed a cooperative...
Carrier consolidation among the wireless industry's top players has had a similar effect on smaller operators, which are being forced to cooperate more closely to provide advanced services that larger operators have taken for granted. While voice services remain the industry's main revenue source...
WASHINGTON-Efforts must be made to ensure the 700 MHz spectrum from the transition to digital TV is not all won by established operators, a consumer advocate told Congress Thursday afternoon. "You have to make sure Verizon Wireless and Cingular Wireless L.L.C. don't gobble up...
SAN DIEGO-The Rural Telecommunications Group Inc. (RTG) is partnering with One Voice Technologies Inc. to offer enhanced mobile services such as group conference calling and voice dialing.The association of rural carriers said the deal will allow it to offer special pricing on applications powered...
WASHINGTON-Sen. Conrad Burns (R-Mont.) often describes his state as having a lot of land between light poles. In other words, rural America by its very definition has fewer people and more land. This combination has traditionally been harder and more expensive to serve by...
The Rural Telecommunications Group trade association, which represents small wireless operators in rural markets, filed a petition asking the Federal Communications Commission to deny Alltel Corp.'s pending acquisition of Western Wireless Corp. RTG cited a lack of information in the acquisition application, potential harm...
WASHINGTON-The Rural Telecommunications Group announced it has made Jessica Bridges its new chief executive officer.Bridges previously served as director of government affairs for Bennet & Bennet P.L.L.C., responsible for legislative lobbying before the Federal Communications Commission and Congress on behalf of rural telecommunications firms....
WASHINGTON-The Rural Telecommunications Group is urging the Federal Communications Commission to give rural wireless carriers more time to comply with wireless enhanced 911 rules and to create a fourth class-Tier IV with less than 100,000 subscribers-to acknowledge the difficulties these carriers have in complying...
WASHINGTON-The Federal Communications Commission adopted rules that allow wireless carriers to lease spectrum they are not using to other companies, a move heralded by the wireless community."The spectrum-leasing policies adopted are a landmark step in the evolution toward greater reliance on the marketplace...
WASHINGTON-The Federal Communications Commission should be able to act before Labor Day on each of the nine wireless local number portability implementation issues the Cellular Telecommunications & Internet Association identified in a petition for declaratory ruling, said FCC Commissioner Kathleen Abernathy on Wednesday.Abernathy told...
WASHINGTON-With apologies to Shakespeare, "To eliminate the analog set-aside rule or not to eliminate the analog rule, that is the question?"The answer, however, is in the eye of the beholder. Large wireless carriers want the rule eliminated, small rural carriers and consumer advocates do...
WASHINGTON-The Federal Communications Commission is wading through competing comments and competing economic studies as it decides whether to eliminate the cap that limits the amount of spectrum a company can control in a market, leave it in place or raise the cap to 70...
WASHINGTON-The Federal Communications Commission said it will not reconsider the eligibility rules for the re-auction of 422 PCS licenses that allowed large carriers to bid on licenses previously reserved for small businesses.Six entities-Alpine PCS, National Telephone Cooperative Association, Northcoast Communications, the Organization for the...
WASHINGTON-The Federal Communications Commission on Thursday began a process that it hopes will lead to a secondary market for spectrum, and it put the private-wireless industry on notice that it might be subject to auctions if it wants additional spectrum.Secondary marketsA key policy objective...
The Federal Communications Commission filed a reply brief last week with the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Sixth Circuit which is causing a review of the commission's wireless resale sunset decision.Cellnet Communications Inc., a Detroit cellular reseller, brought a lawsuit against the commission...
