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The Canadian Radio-TV and Telecommunications Commission said small...

The Canadian Radio-TV and Telecommunications Commission said small carriers there face discrimination from their larger peers in wholesale roaming rates, said the U.S-based Rural Wireless Association Friday (http://bit.ly/1rT0wMF). RWA said U.S. regulators should follow Canada’s lead. “Canada now expressly prohibits…

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discrimination among and between all roaming agreements,” RWA said. “Canada also enacted new legislation that sets all roaming rates (Data, Voice and Texting) at the prevailing retail rate of the carrier that is providing the roaming service.” The FCC’s three-year-old data roaming rule “other than requiring dialog between parties ... has yet to change the actual behavior of the country’s largest wireless carriers,” the group said.