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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 …

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Les Afriques is reporting (in French, here’s the Google Translation) that the local carriers have raised their rates …

Amazing, the comments I posted to this post on the CTIA blog got posted! One of them even got responded to. Someone must be asleep at the switch.

Carriers don’t block text messages between users, they say. They probably …

We like to think–perhaps naively–that nobody can track where we are on our mobile phone. The fact of the matter is, the cell providers have to know where you are …

I am not aware of anyone suggesting that carriers are actually blocking text messages. That’s something common carriers would not be allowed to do under the U.S. laws, anyway.

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A recent comment on my wireless service in Indonesia post along with a conversation I had with someone in our local Office Depot reminded me to re-examine the whole prepaid …

Alltel Wireless, the largest of the regional CDMA mobile network operators (MNOs) announced they are now giving customers the ability to “personalize” their voicemail greetings with one of over 500 sound …

In this installment of “PhoneBoy says where the CTIA is wrong again,” the CTIA thinks that we shouldn’t be attempting to regulate what Internet service providers should and should not do regarding access to the Internet. The CTIA, …

The CTIA is baffling me again. This time it is with their non-sequitur response to the whole issue of Common Short Codes, which the folks at Public Knowledge are petitioning the …

I saw a post on the CTIA Blog saying they were opposing some legislation the Consumers Union–the folks behind the Consumer Reports magazine–were proposing to “regulate” the wireless industry. …