Re:Get ready for... (Score 1)

They will certainly be entitled to recoup their costs.

Really?

Maybe the way the fcc has kowtowed to the bells, but that's not the way it was set up in Europe, and that's certainly not the way it should be.

In Europe, because they standardized on one technology, you don't like your company, you pull the card from the phone, and insert another card into the same phone. You don't have to buy a new phone to switch companies. Yet, magically, there are no monthly fees for "number portability". They've been able to switch companies without loosing numbers for some time now.

When the cell phone companies started, the licenses were looked upon as a license to print money. How much of a profit are the consumers required to guarantee to cell phone companies?

This is a cost of doing business. The cell phone companies don't like it? Sell the license to the spectrum to someone else who'd love the chance to take over, and go find some other money printing business that makes them the same money.