Mobile Phone Madness

If you bought any generation of iPhone in the U.S., a federal judge just decided you can now join a class action challenging the exclusive marketing agreement between Apple and AT&T. It’s just not evident why you would want to. It’s not at all clear you are …

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Why the FCC Should Stay Out of Data Plan Pricing

A big question these days for smartphone users is whether telecommunications providers will continue to offer “all you can eat” data plans or switch to charging by the megabyte. The more important issue–at least from …

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Spectrum Wars

The wireless communications revolution runs on money, technology and spectrum. The money and technology fronts seem in fine shape, thank you. And we are guardedly optimistic that the Obama administration will soon help to ease the spectrum bottleneck by auctioning off some underutilized electromagnetic real estate, raising billions of dollars …

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