AT&T's iPhone Exclusivity Checked by Congress
Wednesday, July 11, 2007
Interesting post on Tech.Blorge claiming that congress is soon going to hold hearings on wireless communications that will consider "the unbundling of cellphones from their carriers." Although this won't do much for me currently as a Sprint user, it could certainly shake things up a bit for the industry.We need to unbundle phones," according to Committee Chairman Ed Markey. He told The Street that "The consumer should be king and should be able to take their device with them, to whichever network provider is offering them a better deal… "If this were in effect now, AT&T would actually have to compete for my business on merit (a fight which up until now they have lost miserably) rather than rely on the attraction of the iPhone alone to win me over.
Labels: cellular plans, cellular service, congress, iphone
posted by Russell @ 3:11 PM,
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