Competitiveness Complaints in U.S. Wireless

WaPo writes on the ruckus that Tim Wu is causing in the U.S. with his attack on silos in the U.S. wireless market (Tech Liberation Front has a contra piece here, and Wu talk to On the Media about it here). It would no doubt seem odd to the typical Canadian that a market at least more competitive than our own is said to be uncompetitive, when our uncompetitive service providers are telling us how competitive they are, but there you have it – in the world of wireless, up is down and black is white (and you could be forgiven for now snickering at past Canadian Wireless industry assertions that wireless number portability isn’t needed to increase competition in the Canadian market in the light of their recent launches, on the eve of the (at long last!) introduction of WNP, of new discount rate plans designed to retain customers – events that (of course!) aren’t related, at all – why would you even think such a thing?).