Cell Phone Licensee, Beware

February 12, 2013

Even after you’ve paid for your phone, you don’t own it, under a new ruling from the Library of Congress.

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Cellular Prices Rise, With A Boost From Washington

July 13, 2012

The Obama administration nuked AT&T’s deal with T-Mobile. Now comes the fallout: higher prices.

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Waiting For My Next iPhone

August 30, 2011

To Apple and AT&T: I won’t settle for just any 4G.

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Calling For Common Sense On Cell Phone Taxes

October 11, 2010

We have more than 20 employees here at Palisades Hudson, each of whom has a telephone on his or her desk and a life outside the office. If someone makes a personal phone call to check on the kids or to find out what to bring home for dinner, I don’t care. Neither does the Internal Revenue Service. Even though an employee may personally benefit from using that company-provided phone, …

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Privacy In The Workplace

December 28, 2009

Most white-collar employees have telephones on their desks, and most employers, myself included, do not mind if an employee uses the phone occasionally for personal purposes. It would never occur to me to eavesdrop or surreptitiously record those conversations. On the other hand, I, and many other employers, warn employees that they should not expect privacy for anything they do on the company’s computers. I reserve the right to preserve …

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Dialing For Dollars At The Treasury

June 16, 2009

The financial crisis must be over and the economy must be fixed, because apparently things are getting pretty slow at the Treasury Department. There is time now to consider how to tax employer-provided cell phones, an issue that sat on the back burner for 20 years. Since 1989, the Internal Revenue Code has required companies and workers to document every call made on an employer-furnished phone. Employers are supposed to …

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