Onstage at D9, AT&T Mobility CEO Ralph de la Vega, plugging their upcoming mega-merger with T-Mobile, repeats his assuring line that wireless costs have dropped by 50 per cent in the last 10 years despite tons of industry mergers. More »
The New Yorker has sunk its erudite claws into the mysteries of a Time Warner Cable bill. So just what are those line items you never bother looking at? More »
A federal bill is currently looking at making adjustments to current surveillance laws to give police access to the complete phone records of missing persons. The question is whether or not this is too much of an invasion of privacy. More »
The details are still being brought to light on this, so don’t go taking up torch and pitchfork just yet, but apparently there’s some poor soldier in Afghanistan with a $US16,000 bill that AT&T will not budge on whatsoever. More »
Watch out, smartphone users. Telstra has announced that they will allow Windows Phone 7 users to add their app purchases to their NextG bill. How long until we start seeing the media tell us about App bill shock?
Online impersonation can be devastating to the victim, even if they’re not doing anything too nefarious with with the stolen identity. Now thieves could face serious charges, even jail time, under a new bill proposed in California. More »
Bryan St. Germain’s dad, Bob, must look a lot happier right now than he did in this picture. After all, Verizon has just dismissed a $US18,000 phone bill racked up by the young man after a tedious four-year fight. More »
The Federal Communications Commission seems to think that wireless carriers sucker-punching their customers with $US1000+ phone bills is an awful, stupid thing. Which is great, because it obviously is. More »
