It really disappoints me. After hearing AT&T wasn't going to battle open-access I thought it was good news. Even though they have the money to do what Verizon is doing now, they didn't. AT&T seems to be working on better public relations after the NSA mess and I can completely understand. Verizon has always been like this, so it's not really surprising just that sometimes, they go too far. It's pretty much bribing the FCC.
There goes our hopes for the 700mhz spectrum. Even if Google or AT&T bids for the other spectrum, it'll be closed access.
And btw, VZW is usually the fastest to get a phone to launch after FCC approves of it, customized UI and all. It's just a rare case with the vx8600. The same thing happened to AT&T with the v3i.
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ShortFuse @ Sep 27th 2007 10:11AM
It really disappoints me. After hearing AT&T wasn't going to battle open-access I thought it was good news. Even though they have the money to do what Verizon is doing now, they didn't. AT&T seems to be working on better public relations after the NSA mess and I can completely understand. Verizon has always been like this, so it's not really surprising just that sometimes, they go too far. It's pretty much bribing the FCC.
There goes our hopes for the 700mhz spectrum. Even if Google or AT&T bids for the other spectrum, it'll be closed access.
And btw, VZW is usually the fastest to get a phone to launch after FCC approves of it, customized UI and all. It's just a rare case with the vx8600. The same thing happened to AT&T with the v3i.