They’re Reaching for Your Pocket…

Well as is typical our ’some are more equal than others’ leaders have decided to attempt something about wireless carriers. Of course their ‘cure’ is more regulation –

“That all gives me reason to believe we have a cause to keep pushing,” Klobuchar said in an interview with RCR Wireless News. “Yes, this is an election year, but this is one of these issues that the public is really angry about, so sometimes that helps when it’s an election year.”

Klobuchar said she wants to work with another big consumer advocate, House telecom subcommittee Chairman Edward Markey (DMass.), to get a bill through Congress to better safeguard wireless subscribers.

The cellphone industry has not embraced the Markey draft bill or the Klobuchar-Rockefeller legislation in large part because the measures would not eviscerate state regulation of terms and conditions of cellular service. A 1993 law outlawed state regulation of rates and market entry, but allowed states to oversee other areas of wireless service. As such, carriers prefer the national framework in a bill penned by Sen. Mark Pryor (D-Ark.), who wants state regulators completely out of the picture. The push for expanded federal pre-emption has divided state regulators around the country.

Hey Klobuchar, its not a consumer bill of rights we need as you are attempting to draft it. Its the legalese. If you really want to help the consumer, step back a minute and realize where the real problem lies — one way contracts and forced arbitration. Eliminate those provisions and we consumers can take care of the rest. But you won’t do that will you Amy? It gigs your legal lobby interests too much doesn’t it?

Just another damn lawyer.

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