1. Ehsanullah Wedee Section 04

2.  Cell phone carriers do everything in their power to make you sign a new contract.  Carriers purposely hold back updates to try and get consumers to renew their contract by upgrading phones.

3.  The end price for the consumer is driven up needlessly.  When new phones are released, support for the older phones decrease dramatically or becomes non-existent. These are the many ways wireless providers can affect us and how we use our technology.

4.  Wireless providers have been known to release phones later because they are waiting for a new feature.(recent cases include 4g LTE)

5.  Verizon, AT&T, and Sprint each are guilty of putting their own useless apps on any and every phone they can.  This takes up space in peoples cellphones, and in some cases slows them down.  These Useless apps not only take space, but it makes it hard for the manufacturer to issue an official update on time.

6.  Very recently with the Nexus S and Nexus S 4g, carriers delayed updates for 5 months.  Many believe that that this is to force people to sign a new contract.

7.  Virtually every android phone falls victim to the carriers because it is open source. Price issues next!

8.  Price increases, as regulation increases.  Despite Carriers making more money from certain phones, price always increases.  Plan price also increases when you sign a new contract.  The US, and Canada are the most restricted when it comes to

10.  Consumers end up using “root” or jailbreaking methods to update their device to the most recent firmware.  This breaks your warranty and is hard to undo.

12.  Wired.com. 2010. Wired.com. Piya Ganapati. http://www.wired.com/gadgetlab/2010/10/ mobile-plans-expensive-america/ http://www.wired.com/gadgetlab/2010/10/ mobile-plans-expensive-america/  Betanews.com. 2011. Betanews.com. Ed Oswald. http://betanews.com/2011/05/03/free- android-tethering-apps-now-blocked-by- nearly-every-us-carrier/ http://betanews.com/2011/05/03/free- android-tethering-apps-now-blocked-by- nearly-every-us-carrier/