Qwest files a petition to be regulated under an alternative

Qwest files a petition to be regulated under an alternative form of regulation.
Qwest files a petition to be regulated under an alternative form of regulation pursuant to RCW 80.36.135. Docket UT-061625

Wireless data services and net neut

In reading a special section of BusinessWeek (free registration required), I came across the following quote in this article:

Mobile operators such as Vodafone have long been content to fly solo as they make the costly push beyond voice calling into data. Many European carriers reckoned they didn't need to form partnerships to make good on upwards of $100 billion spent on the government-issued licenses needed for delivering advanced wireless services such as Internet access.

They may be singing a different tune, judging from a spate of recent announcements. Vodafone, for example, announced on Nov. 14 that it was forming a partnership with Yahoo! (YHOO) to put advertisements on mobile phones. Then, on Nov. 16, Hutchison Whampoa's British wireless operator 3 unveiled its X-Series, which bundles wireless broadband applications including Google and eBay for a flat fee, an effort aimed at encouraging customer adoption of data services

Is this the same as the fees that content providers are upset about in the US? If so, why the change? Is there a relationship between the content provider's interest and the carrier's?

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Martin Weiss