Everyone needs to read this article and rejoice!

The begining of the end!

New rules could rock wireless world

Also this is a good video:
Free My Phone - WSJ.com

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it will be very interesting to see if anything good comes from this news. i will definitely be watching this!

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What is next??? The Saga i770? The Omnia i910? The Touch Pro XV6850? The BlackBerry Storm?

This is precisely why the devices in Korea are just crazy at this point.

Freeing the device from the carrier is going to force the manufacturers to come up with that "new thing" to capture or maintain device market share, and at the same time force the carriers to accept these new devices on their or lose those subs to a different carrier who will.

If the iPhone would have been a CDMA / GSM device with no exclusivity, the carriers would be hard pressed to allow an unlocked phone onto their network.

Sprint and Verizon would have been in a stare down and one would have flinched, and then the other would have followed suit.

This is great news.

I think it would be great if we could all get behind this guys efforts.
We should start a mailing or a discussion forum or a bake sale.......something!

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Cool, thanks Mark for starting this thread!

Nice sig by the way

-Marc

Thanks for this piece, MarcG.

While we can't read into it more than is there, it's clear the handwriting's on the wall. Carrier-independent hardware is coming (in stages).

Clearly, the FCC's acknowledging that the current system is an anti-competitive tyranny. The defined conditions for release of the 700MHz spectrum are a place to start.

As of now, it's probably fair to say that the major transition to open devices is, say, 2.5 years away (figure 2 hardware generations).

Good news.

--BAM

2.5 years will give other service providers the time to expand and beef-up their networks.

I just don’t understand why there aren’t more people complaining or outraged by the current service provider/manufacturer relationship.

Bam, we appreciate your time and efforts that you and Mrailing put into the Terminate i760 Short Term Confidentiality; Complain to FCC. However, would you like to start an effort to help address this issue?

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VZW, It's 2008! Time to embrace technology, not suppress it. - oops too late I've moved on over to the iPhone w/ AT$T!

Here are more news today:

Our view on spectrum for sale: Disconnect phone, provider - Opinion - USATODAY.com

The following is a link to send an e-mail to FCC Chairman Martin.
This is a federal agency so I would be very careful and respectful with what you write. The more e-mails he receives supporting Any Phone, Any Network will help propel this issue.

Send E-mail to FCC Chairman Kevin J. Martin

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Here..maybe... do you smell something fishy?

Shhhhhhh.......do you hear that?........it's sloppy!

Thanks for posting the link. You don't post often and this is a very important issue that needs to be addressed.

Thanks

Mark

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