October 22
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So, it’s intolerable that [our] country […] has trapped its citizens in a backward, stifling system when it comes to the next great technology platform, the cellphone.
A shortsighted and often just plain stupid federal government has allowed itself to be bullied and fooled by a handful of big wireless phone operators for decades now. And the result has been a mobile phone system that is the direct opposite of the PC model. It severely limits consumer choice, stifles innovation, crushes entrepreneurship, and has made the U.S. the laughingstock of the mobile-technology world, just as the cellphone is morphing into a powerful hand-held computer.
” — Walt Mossberg, from today’s article “Free My Phone” - see http://online.wsj.com/article/SB119264941158362317.html?mod=hps_us_at_glance_sr