Marketing fodder for Neo: FCC presentation

Gabriel Ambuehl gabriel_ambuehl at buz.ch
Thu Feb 22 18:42:13 CET 2007


On Thursday 22 February 2007 18:21:51 Wolfgang S. Rupprecht wrote:
> Now, while I'm not fan of Skype with their anti-open standards stance
> (with their proprietary and secret signaling), I do see this action as
> a good thing for the open source community.  Skype is the 800
> lb. gorilla of voice over the Internet.  With Ebays billions available
> to them, perhaps they will be able to convince the FCC to change the
> current stranglehold carriers have over phones and software.

Do US GSM carriers *really* stop you from using your SIM in a phone you bought 
yourself? 

I could see it applying to CDMA but that's another issue, really.

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