Thread: Maemo, What's the Carrier's Argument?
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matthewcc is offline matthewcc
2009-09-05 , 10:45
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#24
Originally Posted by ysss View Post

They've made their calculations before investing in all the infrastructure with certain assumptions, and those assumptions include components such as:
- number of customers per base station
- customer growth\cycles
- expected income from each customer

You can see how an open system that brings free\low cost alternative solutions to what they're selling (voip, messaging system, etc) may mess up with with their calculation and they're fighting it off to delay the inevitable.
Sounds like the carriers need to start developing better plan offerings dependent on device type. If someone has a n900 type device they will just start charging them at a rate equivalent to unlimited voice text data. (which at tmo US is still only costing me 85$ vs the 150 i would pay with at&t.)

I'm pretty sure that carriers can tell what devices are accessing their network and they will just block you unless you are properly registered and paying into the appropriate scheme. Low for dumb phones, Medium for phones like the 5800xm, high for the n900.

(at the same time I think they should give you a credit for signing a contract without one of their subsidized phones... it is nice to dream)
 

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