7 Smartphone Rules Changed This Week

Federal regulators have been throwing their weight around lately, and mostly to good effect for consumers and users of mobile technology.
The net effect of their recent activism adds up to a whole new set of rules and protections for all of us.
Here are the ramifications of seven new rules.1. Carriers can't throttle 'unlimited" data plans anymore.

The Federal Trade Commission ordered prepaid mobile provider TracFone to pay a fine of $40 million. The transgression? It throttled (deliberately