Wireless Wars Will Consumers Be Collateral Damage

摘要

A BATTLE IS brewing be-tween wireless carriers andthe feds—and caught in thecrossfire are all of the smart-phones, netbooks, andbandwidth-hungry mobileapplications that users areincreasingly enjoying. Bothcamps claim to be doingwhat's right for consumers:One side says that it is head-ing off a mobile meltdownby enforcing rules on thetypes of devices and servicesthat can access their net-works, while the other saysthat the priority should beon giving users unfetteredaccess to the wireless Web