RWA Blames Verizon for Montana Wireless Cutoff
“Verizon, and Verizon alone” is to blame if thousands of its customers in rural parts of Montana lose service if they fail to switch to the underlying carrier used by the company for roaming support or to agree to switch…
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to a metered data plan by Dec. 1, Mike Kilgore, president of the Rural Wireless Association, wrote the Montana Legislature’s Telecom Interim Committee. “Under negotiated roaming agreements, Verizon and its rural roaming partners established commercially reasonable roaming rates and other commercially acceptable terms,” RWA said in a Monday news release. “Verizon implemented a competitive unlimited data plan in February of this year. Now that data usage is on the rise, Verizon has felt the impact on its bottom line and is pulling the plug on its rural customers.” Verizon didn't comment.