The FCC’s Trillion-Dollar Gambit

Soon smartphones, tablets and as-yet barely imagined gadgets will be as ubiquitous as MP3 players, opening the door to a wireless future in which everything from professional sports to MRI scans will be available on demand anytime, anywhere. Or maybe not: much turns on the outcome of a struggle between …

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4G Meets Common Sense

MetroPCS, you may or may not know, is a regional wireless carrier that has created a viable market niche with cheapish, no-contract, all-you-can-talk/text plans – and in the process, put competitive pressure on the big carriers. Hence the irony that it is now under …

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Smokin’

Congress requires the FCC to prepare an annual report on the state of competition in the cell phone industry – the 13th edition came out in January 2009. And with the unveiling of the 14th report scheduled for May 20, Verizon Wireless is making public its views on …

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