I am starting to get more requests for “blog love” at a time when I have less and less desire to write. I am quickly coming to the realization that much of the stuff people are asking me to write about just isn’t that interesting. Quite honestly, I don’t want to simply echo w...

The latest post on the CTIA blog didn’t make a lot of sense. They were arguing against spectrum caps. Of course, they did nothing to directly explain what spectrum caps are and instead chose to use a bunch of flawed analogies to describe it. In short, there is a fixed amount of spectrum availa...

If you’re a current AT&T Customer: For those of you not AT&T Customers: If you don’t want to watch these cheesy videos from AT&T, then here are the particulars: 1. New AT&T customers will get the 3G iPhone for $199 (8GB) or $299 (16GB), complete with 2 year ball and chain...

Image via Wikipedia For the second day in a row, my internal email at Nokia causes me to drop what I’m doing and blog. And this, my friends, is some news. BIG news. According to a press release, Nokia intends to acquire the remaining shares of Symbian that it does not already own. It already o...

Image via Wikipedia Ok, this has come up again. Deutsche Telecom, the company that owns T-Mobile in the U.S., is supposedly in talks to buy Sprint. The conventional wisdom is that Sprint uses both CDMA and iDEN, but T-Mobile uses GSM. That’s about like mixing oil and water. Sprint itself could...

Image from Wikipedia The folks at the CTIA–the asscociation, not the trade show–are bemoaning the fact that people are actually using their networks . They feel that the only answer is managing the network, as evidenced by the following quote from the CTIA blog: We need to understand tha...

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 lobbying arm for the wireless industry in the U...

I went back to the Gig Harbor Costco on Friday to grab a bite to eat and see if they sold any other phones without a contract. There is one phone they sell without a contract, but it’s a prepaid low-end Samsung on T-Mobile. Hey, even that’s news to me. They sell prepaid? Last time I aske...

From the no duh department, the folks at AT&T Mobility were “secret shopped” by the folks at the Consumers Union. They asked what the early termination fee (ETF) was for a wireless contract with their company. Guess what: they got different answers, depending on whom they talked to. ...