"Industry watchers and politicians say the cost to transmit the growing number of SMS messages is not in line with the rising fees." read more » DiscussBury
"Sen. Herb Kohl asked the top four U.S. wireless providers to explain why they raised text message prices almost simultaneously last year." read more » DiscussBury
The chair of the Antitrust Subcommittee in the Senate Judiciary Committee has written to the four largest US network operators demanding they explain why the cost of texting has doubled since 2005. AT&T, Verizon, Sprint, and T-Mobile are being affected by this antitrust investigation. read more » DiscussBury
Paul Kapustka reflects on WiMAX, a promising wireless broadband technology which has support from several large vendors, most notably Intel, but has been struggling with competing technologies of lat read more » DiscussBury
The FCC is calling for greater competition in the cable industry by prohibiting exclusive deals between apartment complexes and cable companies. Comcast has responded by claiming this is a significan read more » DiscussBury