Should Zoom Be a Public Utility?
Online platforms like Zoom and Skype have become basic, public necessities as our lives are upended by the coronavirus. Should they be nationalized?
Isolation on Both Ends of the Line
In a complete distortion of free-market economics, the phone companies that secure contracts with prisons are often the ones that charge more than their competitors.
One Nation, Under Surveillance
The cell phone has become the instrument of choice for tracking your every move.
AT&T’s Upside-Down World
If we had actual competition for mobile phone services in America, AT&T’s decision to charge you more for less would never fly.
Who’s Really Winning the Smartphone Wars?
We’re letting top executives of giant corporations expropriate public “property” for private gain.
Big Cable’s Plan to Lock Down Your Future
While the likes of Comcast and Time Warner Cable have every right to profit from their investments and services, they shouldn’t abuse their dominant market share to remake our Internet in their image.
Super Highway Robbery
Your friendly cable company is here to serve you.
Verizon Shortchanges the Facts
The telecommunications giant twisted the truth when it said it wanted to set the record straight in the Record-Journal
High-Speed Collusion
Verizon wants to ink cartel-like deals with a cabal of cable companies — its former competitors — to resell each other’s products.
AT&T Takeover of T-Mobile Won’t Create New Jobs
Companies that merge don’t maintain the joint workforce.
Mobile Mugging
If AT&T is allowed to acquire T-Mobile, just two wireless giants will control nearly 80 percent of the nation’s cellphone market.
Reducing Cell-Phone Radiation Risks
Gauging the precise dangers these gadgets pose to our health could take years, so let’s take precautions now.