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No doubt about it—we’ve got a Congress and Federal Communications Commission that are far more skeptical of the wireless industry than they’ve been in the past. And if the average cell phone user hasn’t sensed this, Verizon has. The mobile giant has been very pro-active of late on hot button issues like roaming and exclusive handset deals. Its CEO has been running around Washington, D.C. making announcements and floating policy recommendations that will appear to some as olive branches, but to others as bids to ward off stricter government scrutiny.
And it sure looks like said scrutiny is coming. Even before FCC Chair Julius Genachowski actually got his job, he promised a probe on the exclusive handset question.
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