Over a decade ago, the Federal Government embarked on rural telephony, a brainchild of the International Telecommunications Union (ITU). After contracts were awarded for the project, the government ...

WASHINGTON, April 9, 2014 - Legislation aimed at improving rural telephone service in terms of call completion and at cracking down on carriers that allegedly discriminate against rural customers is ...

In 2005, the Federal Government embarked on the National Rural Telephony Project (NRTP) in line with the initiatives of the International Telecommunications Union (ITU). After contract papers were ...

Nearly three decades after the famous telecom revolution, several communities in both rural, urban and semi urban areas of the country have remained disenfranchised. Yet rural telephony is crucial for ...

The FCC has proposed a rulemaking that would convert the $8 billion fund that subsidizes rural telephone service to one that provides broadband Internet service to rural and underserved areas of the ...

A U.S. Federal Communications Commission cap on rural telephone subsidies will cost jobs in rural areas and lead to higher prices for customers in those areas, a group of rural carriers said. The ...

After Alexander Graham Bell invented the telephone in 1876, its use spread quickly through the United States. The first telephones came into use in Tuscarawas County in the 1890s, mostly in larger ...

As wireless providers move towards using data instead of voice calls, the Texas Universal Service Fund (TUSF), which is responsible for offsetting the high cost of connecting Texans across the state, ...

The Honourable Minister of Communications, Chief Cornelius Adebayo, has reiterated the Federal Government's commitment to providing 218 rural communities nationwide telephone lines. It will be ...

LIKE anything without definition or clear-cut objective, the answers to many questions bordering on the planned rural telephony programme of the Federal Government are still flying in the winds. The ...