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We might just have to re-evaluate our position on AT&T as a stuffy, old corporate wireless carrier. Just as we started to think that AT&T didn’t care about their customers’ best interests, they go and do something like this. Last Thursday, the leading US wireless carrier completely flip-flopped on their initial position on FCC Chairman Martin’s open access proposal for the new 700Mhz spectrum. AT&T VP Jim Cicconi said that the company fully supports the proposal to ban device-locking practices on the new slice of frequency spectrum.
Strange, the company that brought us the iPhone completely locked to AT&T, would now go against industry protests and actually endorse the open access proposal. Maybe that Congressional sub-committee into mobile phone bundling had something to do with it? We don’t care, we just want an open 700Mhz band – preferably through Google (we’re still suspicious of AT&T controlling the new band, given how poorly they developed their current holdings).
[Via: PhoneScoop]
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Will Park
Will hails from The City of Angels - Los Angeles, California. He spends his time playing with his numerous gadgets and looking forward to seeing what future holds for mobile technology. An avid promoter of a fully "digital" life, he promotes the widespread adoption of truly mobile, paper-less living. He dreams of the day when he can go completely digital. No more snail mail, paper receipts, bound books, notepads/spiral notebooks, credit cards, hard currency. He's a digital warrior - fighting for the converged life. He is an idealist and a realist - he has a perfect view of what the world should be but knows that the world is not perfect. Can we ever hope to see Will's dream become reality? We'll see...
