It’s a matter of simple equality: Rural America deserves fair access to the same high-quality wireless telephone service urban Americans take for granted. We are becoming a wireless nation – people everywhere depend on their cell phones to meet safety, personal and business needs. Rural America must not be left behind. 

Connecting Rural America is a grassroots coalition of advocacy groups, community leaders and elected officials working to ensure that rural citizens have access to high-quality service and choices in wireless telecommunications offerings that are available in urban areas.

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The Federal Communications Commission (FCC) is considering a proposal to stop support for rural wireless infrastructure development by placing a cap on the Universal Service Fund (USF). If this happens, rural America will be left behind with poor cell phone coverage, dropped calls and dangerous dead zones for the foreseeable future.

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