Yesterday, AT&T announced that they would effectively end truly unlimited data plans by throttling all users who exceed 3 gigabytes per month of 3g or 5 gigabytes per month on 4G LTE. This comes just as app makers are facing the daunting reality that they will have to upgrade the [...]
Today we've seen major news coverage about the Administration's blog post on the new Privacy Bill of Rights, and the fact that one of the first areas to be covered is mobile apps. As we all know, mobile apps are developed by small companies, without armies of lawyers or privacy [...]
[Crossposted from CNET] So here are some basic facts, and some pretty clear suppositions: 1. Data use by mobile devices has exploded -spectrum is the transmission medium for the data explosion 2. The transmission of data over a band of spectrum is limited by several things, including power [...]
Yesterday there was a post on TechCrunch discussing the Wall Street Journal story about content owners subsidizing mobile customers' AT&T data charges. In case you missed it, AT&T is proposing to let app makers or content owners pay for the data overage costs that customers incur with data-intensive app usage. [...]
ACT applauds the Administration's efforts to address consumer privacy and its inclusion of the mobile apps community in the multi-stakeholder process. We were particularly pleased to note that the words "internet" and "online" do not appear in the proposed enumerated Bill of Rights. We say this not because we think [...]