9 May 2012 Swedish telecoms equipment vendor Ericsson has announced a series of deals to deploy Long Term Evolution (LTE) networks for a number of small-scale rural mobile operators in parts of the US and also Guam, an unincorporated US territory located in the western Pacific Ocean. Ericsson lists the companies as follows: Kentucky-based Appalachian Wireless (which will deploy LTE across the Appalachian Mo ...

By pgoldstein Created May 14 2012 - 10:26am T-Mobile USA, the Rural Cellular Association and public interest group Public Knowledge are joining together to formally oppose Verizon Wireless' (NYSE:VZ [1]) planned $3.9 billion purchase of AWS spectrum from cable companies. ...

Published on May 11, 2012 by Ina Fried T-Mobile, a public interest group and an association of rural carriers are joining forces to encourage deeper scrutiny of Verizon’s effort to purchase spectrum from various cable companies. ...

Today, the Federal Communications Commission announced the “beta” release of its Spectrum Dashboard. ...

Washington, DC – Today, the Federal Communications Commission (FCC) announced that the proposed universal service contribution factor for the second quarter of 2010 will be 15.3 percent, an increase of 1.2 percent from the first quarter of 2010. In reaction to the FCC’s announcement, RCA again calls on the Commission to reform the current process of restructuring the Universal Service Fund (USF). In August ...

Washington, D.C. – The Federal Communications Commission’s (FCC’s) Public Safety and Homeland Security Bureau (Bureau) today announced it will hold a colloquium on Friday, March 26, 2010 from 9:00 a.m.-11:00 a.m. to discuss the public safety and homeland security portion of the National Broadband Plan (Plan) that will have since been submitted to Congress on March 17, 2010. The event will be held in the Com ...

Washington, DC – Today, the House Subcommittee on Communications, Technology and the Internet held a hearing to examine the implementation of the broadband programs created by the American Recovery and Reinvestment Act. Testimonies were given by Larry Strickling on behalf of NTIA and by RUS Administrator Jonathan Adelstein. RCA thanks the Subcommittee and Chairman Boucher for their continued work in oversee ...

The full letter from the Department of Treasury is available HERE. ...

NTIA and RUS will grant a limited extension of time to file infrastructure applications in the second funding round. Specifically, applicants for BTOP Comprehensive Community Infrastructure projects will have until March 26th to file their applications to NTIA. Applicants for BIP infrastructure projects will have until March 29th to file their applications to RUS. Applications in NTIA's two other project ca ...

Washington, DC – Today, the Federal Communications Commission released an order extending the deadline for filing reply comments on its Notice of Proposed Rulemaking on draft rules to preserve an open Internet to April 8, 2010. The full order is available here. ...