From: Anders Rundgren (anders.rundgrentelia.com)
Date: Tue Mar 01 2005 - 03:30:01 CST

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Michael Bender wrote:

>This is why we need to have legislation to breakup the stranglehold
>that carriers have on phones, and to make cell phones a true
>commodity where the marketplace determines the features, just as
>we have with regular old POTS phones today.

You are absolutely right! The question is then: Will it happen?
How and why? That is of course impossible to know at this
stage but I can imagine that there will be operators that will
market "untangled" subscriptions. Actually the whole phone
market is in a giant transformation when the services are on the
Internet rather than in the regulated "phone nets". And then comes
things like WLAN, VoIP, Skype etc. that totally changes the
fundamentals of the business. My guess is that big organizations
will not accept that their employees use expensive operator-
controlled lines if they already have a working WLAN.

Anders Rundgren
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