Do you hate your phone as I do?

There’s a real business opportunity for a company delivering phone service not despised by it’s customers.

I would quit FIDO Rogers in a split second if there was something better out there. (I have no contract.)

This article is about mobile phones in the USA, but the criticisms are universal:

A turd by any other name is still a turd, but there’s no harm in counting the ways.

• They stifle progress …

• They’re a cartel …

• They’re going to make you pay for Tetris …

• They just can’t behave themselves …

• They illegally spy on you …

• They have annoying commercials …

• They hate you …

• Their contracts are nonsense …

• They charge crazy fees (for services you didn’t ask for) …

• They lock handsets …

• They cripple their products …

• They charge double for data …

• They own politicians … (or politicians own them)

• Their products suck …

Yeah, you heard me. All of them. Even that one (iPhone). Steve Jobs played Beck’s “Cellphone’s Dead” when demonstrating the iPod Touch, and you know what? He was damn right.

Is that 10? I think I might have overshot the mark. Let’s make it 15. Add your own example or impassioned defense in the comments below.

10 Reasons To Hate Cellphone Carriers | Gadget Lab from Wired.com