Some text messages to Santa were sent to my phone by mistake. Someone somewhere is going to get into big trouble. Anyway, here’s a sampling of what wireless executives are hoping for this holiday season.
Dear Santa Claus,
Please give some direction to the FCC’s wireless bureau. Oh, sorry Santa, that may confuse you. There is no wireless bureau. It seems to have been misplaced and FCC Chairman Kevin Martin doesn’t care. Please bring me my job back, Santa. I liked it.
Sincerely,
An unnamed FCC staffer
P.S. Please keep this under your red cap, Santa. You know Martin doesn’t let anyone talk to the press. I can’t imagine how he would react if he found out I was communicating with someone as powerful as you.
Dear St. Nick,
As we understand it, you can cross the time-space continuum. All we would like for Christmas is the ability to do the same. The Transition Administrator seems to be pretty stern about this June 27 start date for rebanding 800 MHz spectrum. Santa, you know how difficult some things are to change. But somehow you turned the Grinch from naughty to nice, so please make June 27, 2005, actually take place around June 27, 2007. Then, perhaps we can meet these ridiculous deadlines.
Love,
The Sprint Nextel rebanding team
Dear Santa,
All I want for Christmas is one more subscriber-one more than Verizon will have at the end of the fourth quarter. (And if you could make that subscriber a high-paying UMTS business customer, I’d really appreciate it!)
Love,
Stan Sigman
Cingular
Santa,
Dude, I have an awesome game that works great on a cell phone. For Christmas, I would like someone to notice it.
Your friend,
(Editor’s note: There must have been a transmission error because I couldn’t read who this was from, but the address was some basement in Idaho.)
Santa,
I know you probably won’t get this in time for this year, but please, Santa, next time we introduce a new album, don’t let a crazy frog best us in the charts. It was a little embarrassing.
Cheers,
Coldplay
