CTIA Opposed To Arizona’s Cellphone Users Bill Of Rights
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:
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 …
