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For those who don’t want to be locked into a plan, Verizon offers a pre-pay alternative to it, as well as a better choice than using the Virgin network, which is actually Sprint’s.
A very good idea for very casual users, or others that realize that the usual post paid plans are no deal (5GB per [...]

I have generally believed, and expressed here, that government help is needed for this nation to become a leader once again in the area of information access and transfer. I happen to subscribe to the theory that there are certain things too large for the individual to undertake, and that the nation sometimes needs the [...]

Dementia seems to have set in. All of that show during the last presidential campaign, where his mother was brought around, ostensibly revealing that long life and, more importantly, clear thought well into old age, runs in the family, was obviously subterfuge. He is clearly not in full control of his faculties.
In a story on [...]

The one we have seems to be butting up against the limits imposed by the large carriers that refuse to put out the dollars needed to expand as needed. A blurb in slashdot asks why it should be that the large carriers (telcos and cable companies) have the power to shape the internet, instead of [...]

It’s out now. We can see the unvarnished truth. The entire story of how the nation that invented the internet (no matter who you give the greatest credit to) became the land of low speed, and lower penetration by population, than other countries, once considered backwards.
from Betanews
The American Recovery and Reinvestment Act of 2009, better [...]

We seem to be on the verge of the same debate that seemed to be over just a short time ago. You know, the one where one side states that unlimited data plans are going the way of the dodo, and the other side  says that innovation will be stifled if the plans change, to [...]

As anyone who has been reading me for a while knows, I used to work for Radio Shack for a time, managing three different stores in Southern California. I worked there during the time that Len Roberts was the president of the company, and before it was revealed that Dave Edmondson was a long time [...]

Several of the usual places have had stories chronicling the problems with the AT&T network, and also the many problems with the iPhone on that network. The stories are numerous, and many are anecdotal, possibly apocryphal, in nature, but are so prevalent that they must be acknowledged.
As someone who has had a cell phone since [...]

As if the economy wasn’t enough a problem, now, after it was uncovered that SMS text messaging was a no cost option for cellular providers, and we have been paying for something that is 100% profitable for them, information has been released stating that the rates are going up.
from BetaNews
At the CTIA Wireless show in [...]