Skype Asks FCC to Open Cellular Networks

Milwaukee's_Best writes "Skype has just asked the FCC to force wireless phone companies to open their networks to all comers. Skype essentially wants to turn the wireless phone companies into just another network of the kind currently operated on the ground. This would require carriers to allow any phone to be used on their networks, and for any application. Users would simply purchase a voice or data plan (though these could easily converge into a data plan if VoIP calling is used) and then use the device of their choice to access the network of their choice. Think of it as network neutrality for cell networks. Given the competition that exists within the industry, is this needed?"

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[Anonymous Coward]

Except pollution has another name: waste.

In fact, a number of companies discovered that "environmentally sound practices" (read: not wasting so much) saved them money

So why do we still need the EPA to force companies to save money? Because they're led by sociopaths that enjoy poisoning the "little people". Their day isn't complete until they've poured some toxic substance down the drain to further the divide between Them and Everyone Else. "Everyone Else" are not the upper crust of CEOs and top managers, they deserve to have their cancers and misery.

You'll hear them, sobbing about how it's so expensive to have to not pour their leftover chemical soup into the river and how the government is destroying capitalism.

I suggest that we abolish the EPA, and along with it, the social mandate that permitted companies to emit an acceptable level of poisons in exchange for whatever benefits we receive for those companies' existences, in turn charging the executives and employees of companies that leak the least whiff of toxic waste with felony assault by poisoning.