1. Carriers Overcharge For Service

2. You're a global laggard in new technologies

3. Handset discounts are a shell game, not a 'subsidy

4. You seek new ways to get money for nothing

5. You want to lock me in

6. You aggressively oppose net neutrality

7. You want to lock out competition

8. Your solution to public...

Have you UNPLUG your home phone yet????


One day our kids will ask us looking at it, “What is that machine with a wire on it?” We would say, “Child, that is a landline!” and he would probably go blank.

Analysts predict that 2025 could be the last year of landline phones in America because on an average these phones are being unplugged in favor of a cell phone at a rate...

Scam downloads, joke-of-the-day, sexting, and third party offers can run up your bill.

many children have more sophisticated phones than their parents — its like having a computer.

Does your child text under the covers at night?

We’ve all heard that driving and texting is dangerous, but Dr. Milteer warned that pedestrian accidents have occurred because children were texting as they crossed the street and were not aware of their surroundings. And even...

The highway safety researchers estimated that cellphone use by drivers caused around 955 fatalities and 240,000 accidents over all in 2002.

Documents: Department of Transportation's National Highway Traffic Safety Administration - The New York Times

The researchers also shelved a draft letter they had prepared for Transportation Secretary Norman Y. Mineta to send, warning states that hands-free laws might not solve the problem.

Documents: Department of Transportation's National Highway Traffic Safety Administration - The New York Times...

To cover different age ranges, two separate tests were set up on a road course--one with 22-year-old Jordan Brown, a Car & Driver intern, the other with the magazine's 37-year-old editor-in-chief, Eddie Alterman.

Using a Honda Pilot as the test vehicle, both drivers first drove a straight line and were told to hit the brake in response to a light that flashed on the dashboard. That measured their baseline reaction time. The second test had the drivers read a text message while...