The Rural Telecommunications Group and the National Telecommunications Cooperative Association...
The Rural Telecommunications Group and the National Telecommunications Cooperative Association Friday filed a new report at the FCC by iGR (http://bit.ly/RJOqWp), a telecommunications industry market research analysis firm, on the retail rates offered by 60 operators for data services. The…
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groups said the report shows the major national carriers charge much higher rates for data roaming than they charge their subscribers for the same data transmission. “There is overwhelming empirical and anecdotal evidence (from both individual operators and carrier associations) showing that the wholesale roaming rates offered by the country’s largest mobile wireless operators are predatory and anticompetitive in nature and have absolutely no relation to what the largest operators’ own retail customers are paying,” RTG and NTCA said. “By putting this report into the public record, it is RTG’s and NTCA’s goal to provide the FCC with evidence of commercially reasonable retail rates that are currently being charged by mobile wireless carriers. This information can be used by the FCC when reviewing challenges to wholesale data roaming rates charged by mobile wireless carriers to one another at the wholesale level."