Comments on: CDMA iPhone being tested, includes SIM card slot? http://osxdaily.com/2010/10/19/cdma-iphone-being-tested-includes-sim-card-slot/ News, tips, software, reviews, and more for Mac OS X, iPhone, iPad Fri, 17 May 2013 19:40:37 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.3.2 By: Jeff http://osxdaily.com/2010/10/19/cdma-iphone-being-tested-includes-sim-card-slot/#comment-125608 Jeff Wed, 20 Oct 2010 01:27:34 +0000 http://osxdaily.com/?p=8832#comment-125608 Nice catch, I bet you are right! Nice catch, I bet you are right!

]]> By: Brian Hanifin http://osxdaily.com/2010/10/19/cdma-iphone-being-tested-includes-sim-card-slot/#comment-125585 Brian Hanifin Tue, 19 Oct 2010 22:43:25 +0000 http://osxdaily.com/?p=8832#comment-125585 The SIM card is to support Verizon's new 4G "LTE" network, which uses GSM! :) The SIM card is to support Verizon’s new 4G “LTE” network, which uses GSM! :)

]]> By: Manish http://osxdaily.com/2010/10/19/cdma-iphone-being-tested-includes-sim-card-slot/#comment-125546 Manish Tue, 19 Oct 2010 19:16:27 +0000 http://osxdaily.com/?p=8832#comment-125546 I think you make several valid points. I am rather frustrated with having to unlock my phone to use it elsewhere when traveling in particular, but I do not see this changing anytime soon. - Manish I think you make several valid points.

I am rather frustrated with having to unlock my phone to use it elsewhere when traveling in particular, but I do not see this changing anytime soon.

- Manish

]]> By: James Northrope http://osxdaily.com/2010/10/19/cdma-iphone-being-tested-includes-sim-card-slot/#comment-125543 James Northrope Tue, 19 Oct 2010 18:49:00 +0000 http://osxdaily.com/?p=8832#comment-125543 Of course it would make production easier (read as cheaper), but the carrier agreements in the USA are too cumbersome and controlling to allow this. Every phone is sold locked for a reason, you have to pay exorbitant fees to break a contract if you want to go for competing service. It's a financial disincentive to prevent shopping around within the marketplace. This is by design, it's to prevent the US consumer from having true free market choices like you get in the EU. You don't like your service? Tough it out or pay a $300 fine to leave. I bet you there is some truth to this report, but it will only apply overseas in Europe and China. The USA will be locked down to carrier shackles for many years to come. This is VERY noncompetitive and it's rather shocking to be such a staple of the US wireless industry in a supposedly free market society. What this really shows you is the power of industry through lobbyists, Google's CEO touched on this recently: "The average American doesn't realize how much of the laws are written by lobbyists" to protect incumbent interests, Google CEO Eric Schmidt told Atlantic editor James Bennet at the Washington Ideas Forum. "It's shocking how the system actually works." http://www.theatlantic.com/technology/archive/2010/10/googles-ceo-the-laws-are-written-by-lobbyists/63908/ Contract free unlocked phones able to bridge across networks and carriers? Won't happen in the USA. Of course it would make production easier (read as cheaper), but the carrier agreements in the USA are too cumbersome and controlling to allow this.

Every phone is sold locked for a reason, you have to pay exorbitant fees to break a contract if you want to go for competing service. It’s a financial disincentive to prevent shopping around within the marketplace. This is by design, it’s to prevent the US consumer from having true free market choices like you get in the EU. You don’t like your service? Tough it out or pay a $300 fine to leave.

I bet you there is some truth to this report, but it will only apply overseas in Europe and China. The USA will be locked down to carrier shackles for many years to come.

This is VERY noncompetitive and it’s rather shocking to be such a staple of the US wireless industry in a supposedly free market society.

What this really shows you is the power of industry through lobbyists, Google’s CEO touched on this recently:

“The average American doesn’t realize how much of the laws are written by lobbyists” to protect incumbent interests, Google CEO Eric Schmidt told Atlantic editor James Bennet at the Washington Ideas Forum. “It’s shocking how the system actually works.”

http://www.theatlantic.com/technology/archive/2010/10/googles-ceo-the-laws-are-written-by-lobbyists/63908/

Contract free unlocked phones able to bridge across networks and carriers? Won’t happen in the USA.

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