FCC Officially Launching Inquiry Into Wireless Competition
Shoulld be Interesting to see how much control Julius Genachowski and Dems take.
This should bring long in depth reports and bureaucratic red tape to see if there are unfair industry practices that are adversely effecting the consumers in the market. They will look specifically into the 80% market share controlled by the Big four (VZW, ATT, Sprint and T-Mobile). This will be another test to see if the Obama administration will fix the issues or redo the entire way the industry works. We shall see how newly elected chairman Julius Genachowski decides to go.
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We may know in the not soo distant future. Let's see how this inquiry pans out.
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ecycled said:
if the government ran a cell company, what would it be like?
Probably like Nextel?!
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1. We would all be using Bag phones.. the really rich would have StarTec. Single Carrier=very little incentive for innovation. Heck, text messaging would prolly still be the simple "be home toon" premade messages.
2. The service would go up every three months in price. (ala post office)
3. There would be frequent outages/service issues, and there would be a new story every month about how some government rep lost a state's cellphone data base, including their socials (ala VA)
4. Everything would be pay-per-use, or at least sold in bundles. there would be no such thing as unlimited nights and weekends, or mobile to mobile, let alone unlimited messaging bundles. These were all innovations from competition.
One thing I find...
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2. The service would go up every three months in price. (ala post office)
3. There would be frequent outages/service issues, and there would be a new story every month about how some government rep lost a state's cellphone data base, including their socials (ala VA)
4. Everything would be pay-per-use, or at least sold in bundles. there would be no such thing as unlimited nights and weekends, or mobile to mobile, let alone unlimited messaging bundles. These were all innovations from competition.
One thing I find...
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