Blogging the NTEN Conference

2. Mobile technologies are growing slowly but steadily in the United States. They are still the big exception to the open interoperability Kurt mentions above. At the Mobile Advocacy session I heard compelling case studies, but each was unusual and still rather fledgling. Once again, the closed systems of the greedy wireless carriers — AT&T, Verizon Wireless, Sprint, T-Mobile, etc. — are the main constraint to real innovation here. For instance, it still costs an organization $1,000/month to have a vanity mobile short code or “mobile URL.”