Can You Hear Me Now? Why Your Cell Phone is So Terrible

Can You Hear Me Now? Why Your Cell Phone is So Terrible

Slate and the New America Foundation
Friday, April 2, 2010
10:00 a.m. - 11:30 a.m.
http://www.newamerica.net/events/2010/can_you_hear_me_now

Few things in modern life irritate us as much as our cell phones. Calls drop, but contracts stick around forever. Monthly fees get ever higher, even as reception seems to get poorer.

The New America Foundation and Slate Magazine invite you to a panel discussion to figure out what we can do about this. How can the market be changed so that there's more competition and better service? What can the federal government do about bandwidth? What should be in a consumers Cell Phone Bill of Rights? And, well: how do we just get these darn things to work better?

Panelists

Farhad Manjoo
Technology Columnist
Slate Magazine

Sascha Meinrath
Director, Open Technology Initiative
New America Foundation

Tim Wu
Professor, Columbia Law School
Chairman, Free Press
Fellow, New America Foundation
Contributing Editor, Slate Magazine

Moderator
Nicholas Thompson
Senior Fellow, New America Foundation
Senior Editor, Wired Magazine