Incoming FCC Chair Agrees to 'Review' Exclusive Phone Deals
What if we want it the other way around?
Q: What happens if the other carriers still refuse to carry a phone, even if the anti-exclusivity legislation is passed?
Are they going to then force every carrier to carry and subsidize every phone on the market to promote "choice"?
This is a free market, screw the FCC.
justfinethanku said:
This is a free market, screw the FCC.
Wrong. It is not a free market.
As long as wireless carriers' business models are entirely dependent upon use of public property (e.g. spectrum), then w...
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FCC needs to find somthing better to do
NokiaGoth 😈
a simple summary...
This IS NOT about forcing handset manufacturers to create all handsets for all carriers (e.g. IS NOT about requiring Apple to build a CDMA iPhone).
And this IS NOT about forcing all carriers to offer all handsets.
Instead, this IS about potentially allowing all carriers fair opportunity to offer all technologically compatible handsets which they elect to offer, thereby creating greater consumer choice.
This governmental review is happening because both Congress & the FCC are concerned that major carriers, especially VZW & AT&T, are using t...
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