I enjoyed this letter from football great Steve Largent, asking me to please wake up and get over the 1970s! Love this.
Someone Please Wake-Up Tim Wu!
By Steve Largent
In a recent essay published in Forbes, Columbia University professor Tim Wu does his best Rip Van Winkle as he attempts to liken today’s ultra-competitive wireless industry to the bygone phone monopoly of the 1970′s.  In his diatribe, Professor Wu characteristically throws fact to the wind as he attempts to paint the wireless industry as a plodding behemoth that is neither competitive nor innovative. In Professor Wu’s world, there aren’t 233 million Americans using high-quality and ever-evolving wireless devices to surf the Internet, listen to music, take and send photos, watch live television, text message and email, play video games or make phone calls. Nor do roughly 95% of the American people live in a county with access to 4 or more wireless carriers. In Professor Wu’s world, companies aren’t competing, consumers don’t have choices, prices aren’t declining and innovation is at a standstill.  Wake up Tim, the 1970′s are over…and no one wants them back.
