(Tuesday, February 27) The network neutrality debate that has focused for the past two years on maintaining an open Internet is expanding to a new battlefield: wireless mobile services.

In a newly released paper, Columbia University Law School Professor Tim Wu sounded the alarm about the ability of consumers to use devices of their choosing on cellular networks now limited to proprietary equipment.

Wu emphasized that the FCC's "Carterfone" rules, which let consumers connect various gadgets to wired telephone networks, do not apply in the wireless arena. "These controls continue to affect innovation and the development of new devices and applications for wireless networks," he wrote...

"In the United States, there are over 200 million mobile subscribers, and mobile revenues are over $100 billion," Wu wrote in "Wireless Net Neutrality," which was published by the New America Foundation, a nonprofit public policy institute. "As the industry and platform mature, the wireless industry warrants a new look..."

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