Am Mon, 6 Apr 2009 02:54:11 +0300 schrieb george_c <[email protected]>:
That's somewhat crazy, considering that my carrier is selling my a DSL replacement Internet access solution. What goes over that "line" is no business of the ISP (carrier), not more than what goes over the line at my DSL connection. OTOH, one hears often that especially US carriers can get carried away with trying to be customer unfriendly, with borked firmware, or even special US handset models with less capabilities even in hardware. (E.g. Nokia E62 which the US castrated version of the Nokia E61) > It has to mostly with agreements with carriers and licensing as > carriers will act as resellers of the digital content.. then royalty > issues come into play and the complexities just escalate... For > example even Apple with AppStore does not allow in many countries > AppStore downloads over carriers networks (even though Apple has > agreements with), but require a Wifi connection only so the end user > purchases via their own direct connection and so not to use the Well, that's what encryption and VPNs are for. A http-over-SSL connection over the carrier is not really different from a hhtp-over-SSL connection over some random Wifi connection. > carriers as the bearer. Overall its more of a rights issue than > anything else and they don't want to take such risks. What rights??? That's sound similar to intellectual property rights when someone does not want to come out and specify if he talks about copyright, patents or marks. Which is a cheap discussion trick, as an overlay of these 3 concepts has a multitude of properties that each of these does not have alone ;) Andreas --~--~---------~--~----~------------~-------~--~----~ You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "Android Discuss" group. To post to this group, send email to [email protected] To unsubscribe from this group, send email to [email protected] For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/android-discuss?hl=en -~----------~----~----~----~------~----~------~--~---
