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Submitted by Scott Cleland on Wed, 2011-10-26 11:34
The New York Times editorial "How to Fix the Wireless Market," is embarrassingly uninformed and totally ignores massive obvious evidence of vibrant American wireless competition. The NYT's conclusion, that more wireless regulation is needed because of "insufficient competition," results from cherry picking a few isolated facts that superficially support their case, while totally ignoring the overwhelming relevant evidence to the contrary. The NYT completely ignores widely-available evidence of vibrant wireless competition and substitution:
Most embarrassing of all is the NYT's myopic fixation on texting and the price per text versus cost, which totally misses the importance of the wide competitive availability of free and better substitutes. The NYT is ignoring that users can and do use free texting/messaging/communications services via:
Simply, the NYT's claim of insufficient wireless competition is shockingly uninformed -- the editorial board should read its own business technology section more to get into the 21st century, because the era of black rotary phones, and brick-size cellphones has long since passed, as most every other person in America has long recognized.
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