When you’re facing an emergency situation, you need to be able to count on your wireless device to call for help. It’s arguably the most valuable emergency communications tool ever invented, as about 400,000 Americans find out every day.
If you’re like me, you don’t go anywhere without your wireless device, and you count on it for all kinds of things. It helps me do my job better, but it’s also how I stay connected with family, friends and coworkers, keep up on the latest news and gossip, and even do those un-fun things [...]
There has been extraordinary growth in the number of mobile applications available for us to use these days. We’ve gone from just a few hundred thousand on the market three years ago, to more than two-and-a-half million app offerings today. That tremendous surge has made life a lot easier for us in a lot of [...]
Washington, D.C. (September 20, 2012) – Yesterday, the bipartisan, pro-consumer advocacy group, MyWireless.org, awarded Congresswoman Zoe Lofgren (CA-16) with the 2012 Wireless Consumer Hero Award for her commitment to wireless tax relief for American consumers and businesses. Congresswoman Lofgren is one of the original sponsors of the bipartisan ‘Wireless Tax Fairness Act’ (H.R. 1002) and [...]
There’s a lot to consider when buying a new device, but once you’ve purchased one you want to make sure you hold on to it, right? That’s particularly true since today’s smartphones are probably the most personal devices we own. They’re so much more capable than ever before and contain a lot of personal information, [...]
