Category: politics

A little more than a week ago, l met with Chris Guttman-McCabe, Amy Storey, and David Redl of CTIA. This time around, the subject was net neutrality and how it should apply …

Read FCC Chairman Julius Genachowski’s speech on net neutrality and then read the CTIA’s response to it. I’m not sure these two letters are about the same thing. Here’s a quote from the CTIA response:
As a justification …

Last weekend, I seriously flirted with the idea of getting an iPhone 3GS. Serious enough that I actually went into an AT&T Store, played with one for a few minute, and actually tried to buy one. But I couldn’t pull …

There are many books I have not read by the great Ray Bradbury, but one that I’ve heard about on and off over the years was …

The latest post on the CTIA blog didn’t make a lot of sense. They were arguing against spectrum caps. Of course, they did nothing to directly explain what spectrum caps are …

I have never understood why one needs to change the clock twice a year to “save daylight.” …

If you’re a Mac or Linux person and you want to run Windows apps without a Windows license, then the folks at Codeweavers have a deal for you. Today–and today only–until midnight GMT-5, you can get your own, …

While I am known not to agree with the CTIA on a great many things, I do like to point out when I think they’re going in the right direction. A recent …

It seems like I’ve been ragging on the CTIA quite a bit lately, but these guys make it so easy.

In what turns out to be absolutely no surprise to anyone, the fine folks at the CTIA–the
industry association for the mobile operators in the U.S.–are opposing Arizona Senate Bill S-1010: The Cellphone Users Bill Of Rights. Why might they be doing that? Let’s see what the CTIA association president Steve Largent says:
The truth is that when you attempt to regulate a modern, high-tech industry as if it were a 1970’s public utility service, you wind-up hurting the people you’re seeking to protect. Just imagine the cost increases and customer confusion that would ensue if wireless carriers were forced to abandon their national calling and data plans, advertising campaigns, billing and customer care systems in order to set-up and comply with dissimilar regulations in 50 – or even two – different states.
Are they really asking for anything that would affect that? Let’s see what S-1010 is asking for:

Sam Sethi picked the wrong blogger to lie to–repeatedly. That blogger was Oliver Starr. Apparently, he hasn’t been paid since Blognation was started. Repeated promises of payment and funding were made, …