Thread: Maemo, What's the Carrier's Argument?
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2009-09-10 , 07:32
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Originally Posted by Texrat View Post
I think Maemo has a built-in threat to carriers, and it's all about that word they're allergic to: open.

I think that's Nokia's biggest challenge here with this product. Of course, T-Mobile tends to be more flexible than other major carriers...
It's amusing some of the situations they are in, take orange.
I have a "virgin tariff" with orange at the moment (like pay as you go, but automatically paid monthly).
The only way I can transfer my number to a contract for my n900 is to go to another provider, so I want to pay more money but Orange can't do it!
Also Orange do not do any contract for web browsing on a phone, which is even more bizarre.

As a final twist looks like I'll be going with T-Mobile, and they are merging with Orange now.

The carrier world is a big mess! and that's in the UK I hate to think what the situation is like in the US!
At least things are slowly improving...never thought I'd say it, but thanks to EU regulations!
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