Fwd: Retroactive vs. Radioactive Rule Making - Mobility TechZone

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From: Mobility TechZone <newsletters@tmcnet.com>
Date: 2011/9/7
Subject: Retroactive vs. Radioactive Rule Making - Mobility TechZone
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Featured Articles » 4G Wireless Evolution Interview: The Drive for 4G Wireless » ITEXPO West Interview: The Drive for 4G Wireless » Next Generation Mobile Networks (NGMN) Board Makes Recommendation on LTE Patent Pool » Announcing the 2011 Mobile Tech Zone LTE Visionary Awards from Mobility Tech Zone Sponsor: 4GWE Conference 4GWE will explore the critical issues of how best to enable and exploit the mobile Internet. 4GWE will explore the trends driving a shift towards an anywhere, anytime, broadband mobile network. As part of ITEXPO, 4GWE has become the industry's premier gathering place for Mobile Network Operators, fixed carriers, handset manufacturers, mobile internet device manufacturers, application providers, and venture capitalists Top Stories » Frost & Sullivan Predicts High Revenue Growth for Companies with 4G Technologies » ADAPTIX Awarded Two New 4G Patents » AT&T Announces Network Improvement for Mooresville Area » iControl Networks' OpenHome Platform Powers Smart Home Monitoring from Rogers   From The Expert Corner September 07, 2011 Retroactive vs. Radioactive Rule Making By Carl Ford Partner, Crossfire Media If AT&T and T-Mobile successfully merge after the DOJ and FCC came out against the plan, I will send them a Boston Red Sox "Why Not Us" T-Shirt from when they defeated the Yankees in the AL championship and went on to win the World Series.  Retroactive I say this because the statements being made by people about the merger are somewhat like "The Curse of the Bambino" with decades of superstition being applied to AT&T's Death Star Logo. One of the message boards I frequent compared AT&T to the Leave it Beaver character "Eddie Haskell" who would go from being a nice guy in front of the parents to being a schemer with his peers. That show ended in 1963 and through re-runs people from the 70s may have seen it, but clearly the metaphor is old... Read More   From The Blogs 6 Billion Reasons for AT&T to get the Deal Done September 2, 2011 By: Rich Tehrani The ramifications of the AT&T acquisition of T-Mobile USA not goingthrough due to a DoJ lawsuit is concessions to Deutsche Telekom worth $6 billion. Obviously this is a massive number - let's call it a potential management head-rolling number at AT&T... Read More Featured Videos Carl Ford interviews Randy Bryson of Sprint Featured Resources » Mobile And Social Technologies Come Late To Wealth Management » Customer Service in the Digital Workplace » Six Lessons Hospitals Have Learned About Smartphone Messaging TMCnet's Blogs » Price of 4G LTE devices will drop dramatically next year Featured Channels » Enterprise Mobility » 4G Wireless Evolution » Mobile Unified Communications Advertise With Us   General advertising Info: Click here      Become a MobilityTechzone columnist! Become a MobilityTechzone columnist! Want to contribute your expertise to a growing audience of technology professionals? Become a writer, blogger or columnist for the MobilityTechzone site and this newsletter. Contact TMCnet Group Editorial Director, Erik Linask, at elinask@tmcnet.com for details.

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