Do you hate cellphones? Sure you don’t, and there is no reason why you should. Cellphones are nifty gadgets that have become so integrated in our lives, so much that most of us cannot live without cellphones anymore. If there is anything or anyone you should hate, it is not the cellphone but rather the cellphone carriers. And if you are one of those people who do hate these bigwig carrier companies, you certainly are not alone.

Rob Beschizza of Wired.com very, very recently came up with ten good reasons why cellphone carriers should be hated. Below is a brief rundown; do take them with a grain of salt, of course (although I think we are bound to agree with some of these points, if not all).

1. Cellphone carriers stifle progress. They’ve got a good thing going, and they wouldn’t want to change status quo.
2. Cellphone carriers are a cartel. They may be competitors, but in terms of protecting their own interest, they are collaborators.
3. Cellphone carriers are going to make you pay for Tetris. Yeah, why get it for free when they can sell them to you?
4. Cellphone carriers just can’t behave themselves. Fraud, corruption, greed, censorship, poor customer service. What else?
5. Cellphone carriers illegally spy on you. If you think that whatever you said on a conversation via cellphone is safe, think again.
6. Cellphone carriers have annoying commercials. Smug, cheesy, silly, disgusting, what-have-you. But then again, who doesn’t?
7. Cellphone carriers hate their own customers. It is their privilege to make money from you.
8. Cellphone carriers’ contracts are nonsense. The jargon-y legalese in their thick user contracts serves to protect the carriers, not the consumers.
9. Cellphone carriers charge crazy fees for services you didn’t ask for. Or services you simply don’t know about. Really. Go check your phone bill.
10. Cellphone carriers lock handsets. You cannot just use a single phone for every SIM card that you own. Enough said.

There are actually five other reasons more. Go read them here.

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