FCC rules in favor of smaller service providers, mandates Verizon and AT&T to let smaller service providers to use their data roaming service
04.08.11
The Federal Communications Commission (FCC) orders AT&T and Verizon Wireless to let its wide mobile data services be used by smaller service providers for data roaming. These required both service providers to sign an agreement with smaller competitors for the cause.
This gives companies like U.S Cellular and Cellular South to offer nationwide coverage to its subscribers freely using AT&T and Verizon Wireless data networks.
AT&T and Verizon Wireless reacts to this by saying that the FCC and the government is pulling the progress of the mobile industry as this will discourage future investors to invest in their companies and considering it as a defeat of their subscribers too.
