On Sun, 2011-02-20 at 12:05 -0500, Vince wrote: > Hey all, First time poster. Love the group.
Welcome to the list! > I have to agree, In my experience the major source of phone lock down has > more to do with the vendor selling the phone than the platform designer. Its a bit of a combo, but I haven't really had any problems with T-Mobile, since I no longer run over the air firmware :) > I know AT&T locked them down fairly tightly. To cite an example the whole > using your phone as a hotspot thing. Thats more to do with the telco's > demands than what the platform can do. Even apple wanted to give > Tethering capability to the iPhones but AT&T fought them on it for a while > to my understanding. Yes the hotspot thing I know is carriers vs the platform. They want to get as much money as possible to offset bandwidth costs. Unlimited bandwidth to a cell phone is fine. Soon as you can start using it with a computer or multiple, they can start seeing a much greater load and network utilization ;) If it gets bad enough, will problem change policies or something on the unlimited bandwidth for those not paying for hotspot ( or what ever the carrier calls it) but using a ton of bandwidth. Kinda like what Comcast was rumored to do back in the day, and might still if you use your Internet connection to much... -- William L. Thomson Jr. Obsidian-Studios, Inc. http://www.obsidian-studios.com --------------------------------------------------------------------- Archive http://marc.info/?l=jaxlug-list&r=1&w=2 RSS Feed http://www.mail-archive.com/[email protected]/maillist.xml Unsubscribe [email protected]
