Can You Hear Me Now? Why Your Cell Phone is So Terrible

Few things in modern life irritate us as much as our cell phones. Calls drop, but contracts stick around forever. Monthly fees get ever higher, even as reception seems to get poorer. The New America Foundation and Slate Magazine invite you to a panel discussion to figure out what we can do about this. How can the market be changed so that theres more competition and better service? What can the federal government do about bandwidth? What should be in a consumers Cell Phone Bill of Rights? And, well: how do we just get these darn things to work better?