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Posted by Mr Joseph Singer on April 10, 2008, 9:48 am
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a Cnet story:
> Carriers keeping hands on the reins
> Posted by Marguerite Reardon
> April 7, 2008 4:00 AM PDT
> Over the last few months, mobile operators have been falling over
> each other to profess their networks as "open," but a closer look at
> what they're really doing suggests they have a long way to go.
I get the thrust of this article, but it is only dealing with
Verizon's intransigence and only references the CDMA standard. If the
article went further to really show everything it would show that the
GSM standard, which is used by over 2.5 billion people world-wide
already, is mostly open with compatibility already there for anyone
with a frequency compatible GSM handset. CDMA could be just as
compatible if it were not for the fact that operators are dragging
their feet on the opening of letting people use their preferred
equipment with their networks.
In some parts of the world such as China where the CDMA networks use
R-UIM (which is a "SIM compatible" smart card), you can use any
compatible equipment on any network. It's only networks'
intransigence that prevents that happening in the US (or Canada.)
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