Posted Tuesday 7th July 2009 22:08 GMT
"Exclusive deals do lead to cheaper handsets"
Like O2 and the iPhone?
Cheaper than what?
Exclusivity means you can charge whatever you want, because if that's the device people want, they'll pay for it.
Posted Tuesday 7th July 2009 22:08 GMT
For Denmark read US mobile phone companies, US cable companies, etc. For a country that is so pro competition it is chock full of monopolies and cartels.
Posted Tuesday 7th July 2009 22:08 GMT
since texting is simply email, and a curtailed version at that, prices should be comprable to prices via Internet brand network of networks.
When AT&T introduced SMS, it was a free service to intice you to buy a text capable phone.
Posted Tuesday 7th July 2009 22:08 GMT
Sprint. Just like the DTV delay.
http://arstechnica.com/tech-policy/news/2009/01/4g-war-conflict-of-interests-loom-behind-possible-dtv-delay.ars
Posted Tuesday 7th July 2009 22:08 GMT
perhaps if the main mobile carriers weren't so entrenched, we'd have some innovation here. As it is we just get recycled ideas that were interesting 2-5 years ago in Europe and Japan...
Posted Tuesday 7th July 2009 22:08 GMT
Maybe soon I'll have my choice of who not to buy from in place of being restricted to one bunch of corporate thieves trying to extort me.
Posted Tuesday 7th July 2009 22:18 GMT
The fact that the same sheople who would never tolerate Apple selling them a Mac with the requirement that they can only buy software directly through Apple to run on their Mac, blithely accept such constraints to their use of their own property when it comes to hand held computers like the iPhone, tells one quite a bit about the stupidity of the target markets for these devices.
Posted Wednesday 8th July 2009 09:13 GMT
Washtington doesn't care about consumers. They just put on shows like this for pretenses.
It will be Big Business as usual.
Posted Wednesday 8th July 2009 09:13 GMT
The telcos are just getting started though, just look at what they're trying to do to broadband.
Posted Wednesday 8th July 2009 09:13 GMT
As a Dane i recent the impied connection between Denmark and the US mobile industri.
Posted Wednesday 8th July 2009 09:13 GMT
I think the established spelling is 'sheeple', being obviously derived from 'sheep'.
On immediate viewing, 'sheople' looks like it means a bunch of female people.
Posted Wednesday 8th July 2009 13:41 GMT
Damn good thing I don't pay for one.
Grenade because the "investigation" will be worthless while the cure will be worse than the disease.
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