It's all nice, except that after flashing, the usage of such modem by user in public networks would be illegal.

Also, we're not producing the modem, we don't have *any* access to what's inside modem module. We can't "easily arrange the device" to change anything inside the modem - we can only take modules exactly as big manufacturers offer them. If there was some obvious solution, we would already go for it - and I trust the experience of Joerg (Openmoko) and Nikolaus (Golden Delicious). Both of them believe in freedom as we all do and both of them already made devices that aspired to be named as "free" in the past. I believe that any simple solution as that was already evaluated by them while working on Neo1973, Neo Freerunner, GTA04 and some other, eventually cancelled, devices.