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Brief: Forget about network neutrality in your house, what about in your pocket? *UPDATE*

Categories: Carriers
By: , IntoMobile
Friday, December 14th, 2007 at 6:27 PM

Business Week has an article highlighting the plight of innovative companies like Rebtel Networks who American operators block. Recently this year we saw Truphone in the UK win a battle against TMobile, will a similar court case be fought here in the states? The iPhone woke up a country of people who thought mobile phones were just for text and voice, it will only be a matter of time until a popular service (torrents on mobile phones?) gets released and one of the 4 popular operators refuses to support it and chaos will ensue.

Update: It’s all over Techmeme, people can’t use Twitter on TMobile and they’re outraged. The revolution has begun.

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Stefan Constantinescu

Stefan Constantinescu (@WhatTheBit on Twitter) has loved technology since as far back as he can remember. It started with computers, but in the past few years his passion has turned to mobile devices. As a mobile phone enthusiast who lives and breathes devices that connect to the internet, he knows he is not alone with this radical fascination of all things wireless. He is strongly opinionated and enjoys a good debate so leave comments in his posts and he’ll get back to you! Stefan began blogging as a hobby in the fall of 2006 and joined IntoMobile in the summer of 2007. Later he got a job at Nokia in March 2008, but as of June 2009 he has rejoined the IntoMobile team. He is currently based out of Helsinki, Finland.

  • Chris P

    Symtorrent works over LAN on S60 devices, but not on my Tmobile connection, perhaps they are blocking it alrady? (Then again it could be the Symtorrent coding, its not the best). Then again Symella works a dream on Tmobile web and walk (p2p but not torrent). Piracy by mobile is still possible!

  • brad ceo

    What some info on the NOKIA E90 for a change and not so much info the Nokia n95.