Archive for: January 2008

I know I’ve been ragging a lot on the mobile industry lately. They make it so easy. Continuing in that vein, a reader commented on my Reality Check: Wireless …

A couple of months ago, Voxilla-founder Marcelo Rodriguez called me up to chat. He mentioned that he was working on something iPhone related that was hush-hush. Filed it away in long-term storage.

Meanwhile, I …

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Sue Walsh over at IGotSpam (one of the CW blogs I occasionally write for) notes that another “worm” has hit Nokia phones. From the list, it appears she is talking about S60 2nd Edition handsets and not ones …

I was surprised to get an interview request from Ewan McLeod over at SMS Text News. He asked me 18 questions and I answered. There shouldn’t be any huge surprises there, …

For some reason I thought I wrote about this, but I can’t find the post. In any case, if you haven’t read it somewhere else, you can now order just a SIM …

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:

This week I had an excuse for not being in the groove: I got strep throat again. Of course, I am recovering, but it does put a cramp in my flow when the …

When I was looking for some information on Carterfone rules, I ran across this PDF from the CTIA about how the Carterfone rules should not apply to the wireless industry. …

I was thinking more about the difference between buying a bundle of minutes–at a fixed monthly cost–versus paying for minutes as you go. I’m trying to figure out why such a thing …

I don’t think this song needs any introduction.

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