The Heartland Institute

Cramming—the practice of placing unauthorized, misleading, or deceptive charges on telephone bills—has been a problem with landlines for a while now, but now it has reached wireless phones. The Federal Communications Commission (FCC) received more than 2,100 cramming complaints from wireless customers in the first two months of ...

The Federal Communications Commission s new National Broadband Plan says the United States needs more broadcast spectrum opened up for wireless broadband use, with the assumption it s being wasted by the traditional broadcast television industry. The looming question, however, is how to open that spectrum in a fair fashion. The ...

The Governors Highway Safety Association has reversed its long-held position on texting and driving and now wants every state to ban the activity while admitting the measures will be difficult to enforce. The GHSA changed its position in August, a few weeks after the Virginia Tech Transportation Institute (VTTI) released a study ...

Verizon Wireless is proposing to change its roaming policy to appease smaller carriers who piggyback on its networks, but the smaller carriers are not satisfied. They want the Federal Communications Commission, Congress, or U.S. Department of Justice to force more concessions. Currently, wireless companies are not required by law ...

Lawmakers in Colorado and Michigan are considering bills mandating the use of hands-free devices when talking on cell phones while driving. The Colorado bill (HB 09-1094) was expected to reach the desk of an amenable Gov. Bill Ritter (D) by summer. A slate of three bills to mandate hands-free cell phones in vehicles was moving ...

The Federal Communications Commission says the use of empty airwaves for taxpayer-provided wireless Internet proposed by the federal government would not cause major interference with other technologies, in particular wireless services offered by private-sector firms who bought adjacent frequencies in an FCC auction earlier this year ...

The California legislature has approved a bill prohibiting telephone texting while driving, and Gov. Arnold Schwarzenegger (R) has signed it into law. The new law prohibits the operator of any motor vehicle from using an electronic wireless communications device to write, send, or read a text-based communication, including e ...

A bill before the U.S. House of Representatives would ban the use of cell phones on commercial aircraft in flight. The Committee on Transportation and Infrastructure passed the Halting Airplane Noise to Give Us Peace (Hang Up) Act, H.R. 5788, on July 31. The Hang Up Act was introduced by Rep. Peter DeFazio (D-OR) on April ...