Cognitive Conga: a blog

I sent an email just now to the CTO of T-Mobile USA, Cole Brodman (whose email address is, I have inferred from a few bits of publicly available information, probably cole.brodman@t-mobile.com). If you're interested in open mobile communications, you might want to send him an email too. Feel free to use mine as a basis for your own.

Dear Mr Brodman,

I write to you with some concern that T-Mobile may have misled customers over the use of tethering apps on the Android phones T-Mobile sells. Specifically, you suggested, I believe, that tethering apps would not be blocked. Yet it appears that at least one has been removed from the Android Market in the US.

I call on you to openly address your customers' concerns, and to work with Google to ensure that of those customers, the Android users who wish to use tethering apps can do so with the aid of the delivery platform that the Android Market provides.

Yours sincerely,

Sam Kuper

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