Thursday, April 7, 2011

Competition creator? FCC forces "data roaming" on reluctant carriers

With Sprint and Comcast cheering (and Verizon booing), the Federal Communications Commission has issued rules requiring commercial mobile broadband providers to provide data roaming to other carriers "on commercially reasonable terms and conditions."

The vote was three to two in favor of the decision.

"The evidence shows that mobile providers must be able to offer nationwide voice and data plans to have any chance of competing in today's market," commented FCC Chair Julius Genachowski at today's Open Commission meeting. He continued:

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