From: Apostolos Koutropoulos (der_admiral_at_mac.com)
Date: Thu Mar 17 2005 - 13:47:19 PST
On 3/17/05 3:07 PM, "Victor Rehorst" <victor_at_newtontalk.net> wrote:
> It wouldn't fly because cell service providers want to be able to control how
> you get your data onto your mobile device. And they want to make it so that
> the only way you can do so is over their wireless data network, so they can
> charge you prices through the roof. This is the model that all carriers are
> moving toward: they want device convergence but ALSO they want wireless data
> to be the ONLY communications possibility for those devices.
This is what Verizon in the USA is doing by disabling the BT on their ONLY
BT phone! :-) - Also on their Blue Angel (Audiovox 6600, no WiFi and no BT,
just EVDO - the GSM version has GPRS, WiFi and BT)
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