Gabriel Ambuehl wrote: > On Thursday 22 February 2007 18:21:51 Wolfgang S. Rupprecht wrote: >> Now, while I'm not fan of Skype with their anti-open standards stance >> (with their proprietary and secret signaling), I do see this action as >> a good thing for the open source community. Skype is the 800 >> lb. gorilla of voice over the Internet. With Ebays billions available >> to them, perhaps they will be able to convince the FCC to change the >> current stranglehold carriers have over phones and software. > > Do US GSM carriers *really* stop you from using your SIM in a phone you > bought yourself? > > I could see it applying to CDMA but that's another issue, really. They do disable phones to only work with their network, which has spawned a side industry of people who will 'unlock' your phone for you.
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