Operations
Resale
Resellers offer service to consumers by purchasing airtime at wholesale rates from facilities-based providers
and reselling it at retail prices. The Commission does not actively regulate the resale of such services, only
mandates that it be allowed to occur. The Commission formerly prohibited CMRS (which includes both
cellular and broadband PCS) providers from unreasonably restricting resale of their services. The sunset of
this rule occured on November 24, 2002.
9/27/1999
MEMORANDUM OPINION AND ORDER ON RECONSIDERATION (FCC 99-250)
Interconnection and Resale Obligations Pertaining to Commercial Mobile Radio Services
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