AT&T bashes Sprint for using roaming agreements and ‘disinvesting’ in its own network

AT&T bashes Sprint for using roaming agreements and ‘disinvesting’ in its own network

January 25, 2012 8:44 am 0 comments


AT&T’s Senior Vice President-Federal Regulatory and Chief Privacy Officer Bob Quinn recently wrote a post on the company’s blog that called Sprint out for deciding to use roaming agreements, and “disinvesting” in its own network in Kansas and Oklahoma instead of providing customers with access to its network. As it turns out, the Federal Communications Commission originally prevented carriers, under the Home Market Rule, from creating roaming agreements when they had the spectrum or the ability to use their own networks. However, as Quinn explains, the rule was overturned in 2010 and is currently undergoing an appeals process. Read on for more. So what makes AT&T so mad about Sprint’s decision to use someone else’s network? AT&T doesn’t think the
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