Wednesday, June 9, 2010

Rural Wireless Carriers Get Ready for Fight

Rural cellular operators say they are prepared to lobby the Federal Communications Commission aggressively for mandatory data roaming, Steven Berry the CEO of the Rural Cellular Association says.

RCA members also will push for mobile broadband to be a bigger part of the National Broadband Plan and future Universal Service Fund funding, and will fight handset exclusivity.

Times of regulatory change always provoke such fights, and that is precisely where the industry finds itself these days.

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