Day: December 2, 2009

8 Million Reasons for Real Surveillance Oversight

If the US has 8,000,000 criminals using just Sprint as their cell phone provider, then it’s time for me to leave this place! Call me crazy, but our government is out of control! “Sprint Nextel provided law enforcement agencies with its customers’ (GPS) location information over 8 million times between September 2008 and October 2009. This massive disclosure of sensitive… Continue reading

AT&T and Verizon Kiss and Make Up

After hemorrhaging bad PR and making a no-win situation as bad as it could possibly be, AT&T dropped the lawsuit, which they were destined to lose, against Verizon. Verizon, in a gesture of kindness, dropped their countersuit against what I consider to be the big, bad, mean, money grubbing machine: AT&T. AT&T succeeded in making the Verizon “There’s a Map… Continue reading

Hello! Who Told You First?!

I am shocked! [Said tongue in cheek!] The annual survey of wireless customer satisfaction from Consumer Reports hits the streets this week and it doesn’t have much good to say about AT&T. In a canvass of more than 50,000 readers spanning 26 U.S. cities, the organization found the carrier had the lowest customer-satisfaction rating in 19 cities surveyed; Verizon ranked… Continue reading