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Wireless plan innovation benefits consumers & competition

| Scott Cleland
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Competition, not government regulation, is the best way to generate diverse choices for consumers and businesses

Cell carriers adjust for heavy traffic in Boston, encourage texting

| Josh Peterson
marathon phone Alex Trautwig Getty Images

AT&T said it would leave temporary Boston Marathon WiFi for extended time

Phone companies prepare for storm power outages

| Associated Press
Northeast Snow

Prolonged power outages, such as those after Superstorm Sandy, can bring down cell service in an area.

FCC wants free WiFi for all - TheDC

| Josh Peterson
Free WiFi

New plan for fast, free wireless Internet met with resistance by telecom companies

Supreme Court's likely leashing of 'Chevron Deference' is FCC game changer

| Scott Cleland
FCC-Laptop

Continued Chevron Deference is increasingly critical to the FCC’s actual and perceived authority going forward.

Verizon Wireless to finish network upgrades by mid-2013 - TheDC

| Josh Peterson
Nokia Verizon

The announcement came a day after AT&T announced plans to invest $22 billion dollars a year in its network over the next three years

FCC Showcases Its Growing Obsolescence

| Scott Cleland
FCC

The FCC is clinging to obsolete technology and competitive assumptions

DOJ gives Verizon deal the go-ahead, sort of - PCWorld

| Josh Peterson
Eric Holder Department of Justice

The spectrum deal involves Verizon purchasing unused wireless space held by the four cable companies.

Rep. Markey: Authorities made 1.3 million requests for cellphone info last year - TheDC

| Ryan Lovelace
Cellphone

Big Brother is reading your text messages, demanding ‘cell tower dumps,’ congressman reveals

Obsolete analysis will doom DOJ's antitrust probe of cable

| Scott Cleland
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Simply, this effort appears to be about net neutrality proponents non-transparently gaming the Verizon-Cable Spectrum transaction review process

Verizon to kill unlimited data plans - CNET

| Josh Peterson
Verizon Redbox

But the company was always careful to say that it could change this policy in the future.

T-Mobile, Sprint rally usual DC allies to oppose Verizon deal - TheDC

| Josh Peterson
George Soros with T-Mobile and Sprint logos

T-Mobile, Sprint rally usual DC allies to oppose Verizon deal: ‘Alliance for Broadband Competition’ includes Soros-funded groups from political Left

BGR Source: Apple could offer direct mobile service - BGR

| Josh Peterson
Apple CEO

Apple’s biggest barrier thus far has been the large subsidies carriers pay to keep end-user iPhone pricing affordable

Obama Administration Micro-Managing EVERYTHING Communications

| Seton Motley
FCC

One of the Administration’s most unlawfully over-active wings has been the Federal Communications Commission (FCC).

Abused by the Obama administration, T-Mobile now wants the administration to abuse others

| Seton Motley
T-Mobile Job Cuts

This isn’t a free market – this is abusive and capricious government interventionism.

Report: 'Hacktivism' on the rise - TheDCNF

| Michael Bastasch
Hacktivism

58 percent of all data stolen in 2011 was for primarily political reasons, report says

Obama and his Democrats’ Latest Free Market Blockade

| Seton Motley

President Barack Obama and his Democrat Congressional cohorts have spent the last three-plus years throwing legislative and regulatory anvils into, and in front of, the free market private sector.

Google explains relationship with MasterCard, Sprint and the future of Google Wallet - TheDC

| Alex Myers
googlewalletpic

Mobile payment app security concerns surface and Google responds

Broadbanding Together - TheDC

| Matthew Boyle
FCC

Communications, letters show broadband company received special treatment from FCC, repaid with Democratic Party donations

iPhone not a carrier favorite - BGR

| Josh Peterson
China Apple

Activations and unit sales don’t necessarily paint a complete picture