Note Apple and AT&T have had an agreement to sell the iPhone for the last three years, now John Kerry and his dopey chums want to take action!

“Four U.S. Senators are urging the Federal Communications Commission to investigative whether exclusive deals between cell phone makers and wireless carriers are unfairly impacting competition and restricting consumer choice in the commercial wireless marketplace.

Unlike wireline services, which are required by law to allow consumers to connect the legal devices of their choice to carriers’ networks, the wireless market is pocked with exclusive deals such as Apple’s iPhone arrangement with AT&T. The Rural Cellular Association May 20 filed a a petition for rulemaking on the exclusive deals.

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“Based on this record, we ask that you examine this issue carefully and act expeditiously should you find that exclusivity agreements unfairly restrict consumer choice or adversely impact competition in the commercial wireless marketplace,” Senators John Kerry (D-Mass.), Roger Wicker (R-Miss.), Byron Dorgan (D-N.D.) and Amy Klobuchar (D-Minn.) wrote to FCC acting Chairman Michael Copps June 15.

Kerry, chairman of the Commerce Subcommittee on Communications, Technology and the Internet, is also holding a hearing June 17 over the exclusive deals.

“The subject of exclusivity agreements between wireless carriers and handset manufacturers will be a focal point of this hearing, and the record will help to determine whether legislative action is also necessary,” the senators wrote.”

Fat chance this works. A company has the right to sell what it wants to whom it can sell it. What’s next? Telling Lexus that it has to make cars that inner city youth can purchase?

Government has no business regulating business, especially business that is turning a profit for itself. There is no constitutional right to an iPhone.

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