What Did Apple And AT&T Know, And When Did They Know It?

Why The FCC Wants To Smash Open The iPhone - washingtonpost.com. Apparently, the FCC wants to know why Apple and/or AT&T are putting restrictions on customer's use of their bandwidth and devices to access the wireless Internet. It is about time the Government spent some tax dollars investigating the phone companies who think they own the Internet airwaves. Like the portion of AT&T which used to have a monopoly on land line phones, the wireless Internet is controlled by a few quasi-public utilities, who, in concert with hardware and software manufacturers like Apple and Microsoft, have treated the public airwaves like a private fiefdom. Spare me the claims of some that a company can control its own product. Regulation of public utilities who use an Internet that belongs to all of us is a good thing. It is the job of the FCC to see to it that the companies who benefit from use of public assets play fair with consumers. As the author of this post points out, the rules of free access should be equally applicable to both the wired and the wireless Internet.