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That situation set antitrust alarm bells ringing when AT&T, Sprint, T-Mobile and Verizon all raised their pay-per-use costs of sending a text message from 10 cents to 20 cents over the past three years. That prompted Senator Herbert Kohl, the Wisconsin Democrat who chairs the Senate Judiciary Committee's subcommittee on Antitrust, Competition Policy and Consumer Rights, to hold hearings on the matter in June...
Carriers respond that pay-per-use covers only a tiny and dwindling percentage of use. "Generally, the structure of our pricing plans has moved away from paying 'by the drink' to buckets of messages at much lower prices," Randal Milch, executive vice president and general counsel at Verizon Communications, emphasized at the hearing. Verizon's average price is about a penny a message, he added...
...with AT&T on the issue since last winter, and the service provider will fund the bulk of the project, Gingo said. He added that Harvard is “actively exploring” similar partnerships with other providers, as students have reported reception problems with companies other than Verizon, in particular, Sprint and T-Mobile. Though students have long pushed for improved cell phone reception in the Quad, the problem was brought to the immediate attention of Harvard administrators following the May 18 shooting in Kirkland House, when several Quad residents reported not receiving the University?...
...added that Harvard is "actively exploring" similar partnerships with other providers, as students have reported reception problems with companies other than Verizon, in particular, Sprint and T-Mobile...
...infrastructure. The issue of cell phone reception was taken up by students as early as 2005 and has adopted additional importance recently after some Quad residents reported not receiving emergency text message notifications about the shooting in Kirkland House last month. Many students who use service providers other than Verizon have reported reception problems, said several Quad residents in the past. Hayward, a resident of Currier House, said he has received over 300 messages from Quad residents about the cell phone reception problem since last fall. He complimented the University’s willingness to address this issue, which...