AT&T is cruising for a bruising

[Alexey Feldgendler]

On Mon, 10 Sep 2007 12:03:05 +0200, Raphaël Jacquot <sxpert at sxpert.org>  
wrote:

> The problem was that their three Iphones were racking up a bill for data  
> charges using foreign phone charges. The Iphone regularly updates  
> e-mail, even while it's off, so that all the messages will be available  
> when the user turns it on.

This not because Apple or AT&T are evil. It's actually a bug (or call it a  
design shortcoming) and could happen to anyone. OpenMoko should probably  
include some system-wide network access management that avoids huge  
roaming bills. Applications will normally assume that if they CAN  
establish a TCP connection, then it's OK to do so, and it's better to  
allow them think this way rather than have every application care about  
possible roaming. Otherwise one of the application developers will forget  
about it once, and we'll have a problem like Jay Levy's.


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