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2008-12-04 , 00:50
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Originally Posted by qole View Post
You've got to be kidding me. It's that easy to do an end run around the (supposed) costs and certifications required for mobile voice devices? It seems to me that, if this were true, the carriers would all be taking advantage of this and selling handsets that used the ostensibly data-only standards to do voice. Wouldn't that be cheaper for them?
Big Business (telcos) meets Big Bureaucracy (FCC) and you expect anyone involved to pick the cheaper route?!


I don't really know this stuff, but I am rather skeptical of the notion that the silicon will be incapable of voice. I'm not sure what effect that will have on certification, but inability (even from firmware) to make GSM calls can't hurt and may help.

But next-generation systems (HSPA+) will be all-IP capable, so the telcos are actually headed that direction, if not necessarily for this reason.
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