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Content ratings system to have just two categories.

Publication: RCR Wireless News

Publication Date: 24-OCT-05
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COPYRIGHT 2005 Crain Communications, Inc.

Byline: HEATHER FORSGREN WEAVER

A CTIA-led effort to create a mobile-content ratings system has been dropped-at least for now.

The CTIA board recently voted unanimously to recommend that wireless operators implement the Carrier Content Classification and Internet Access Guidelines created by the trade group and its member companies, but a CTIA-sponsored ratings system has been shelved.

"There won't be a CTIA ratings system,'' confirmed CTIA spokesman Joe Farren after RCR Wireless News learned of the CTIA board's vote last month in San Francisco.

The Internet Access Guidelines are meant to educate people that it is possible to get access to non-carrier-controlled content. The...

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