Comments on: CTIA Dispels Wireless Myths http://www.mobilecrunch.com/2007/07/24/ctia-dispels-wireless-myths/ All About Mobile 2.0 Tue, 02 Dec 2008 02:30:30 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.6.5 By: Fred http://www.mobilecrunch.com/2007/07/24/ctia-dispels-wireless-myths/#comment-221268 Fred Wed, 25 Jul 2007 13:25:18 +0000 http://mobilecrunch.com/2007/07/24/ctia-dispels-wireless-myths/#comment-221268 Way to cherry-pick statistics, you pikers. Price per minute of use is irrelevant - what's the relative total monthly bill? It's really easy to manipulate price per minute by charging a lot for way more minutes than anyone will ever use. I have thousands of rollover minutes at AT&T, but my monthly bill is still too high. Ten Wi-Fi devices? Big deal. How many more devices have had their wi-fi removed at the behest of carriers? Why does my Blackjack have no wi-fi, but the European version does? And even when the carriers deign to leave the wi-fi in, is it open? Can you bypass per-minute charges via VOIP? Finally, the 700 device number is a huge red herring. How many of those are variations of the same handset? More importantly, of that number, how many had features crippled or removed? The fact remains that because of the carriers, we have fewer choices and fewer third-party services. I should be able to buy any device I want, pop in a SIM, and do anything I want with it. Instead, I can get a crippled, but subsidized, handset from the carrier, and if I want additional services I can buy them from the carrier. $40 a month for unlimited data because the wi-fi was removed. $10 a month for telenav because the GPS was crippled or removed. Overpriced music downloads because the bluetooth was crippled. Overpriced software because the java was crippled. Way to cherry-pick statistics, you pikers. Price per minute of use is irrelevant - what’s the relative total monthly bill? It’s really easy to manipulate price per minute by charging a lot for way more minutes than anyone will ever use. I have thousands of rollover minutes at AT&T, but my monthly bill is still too high. Ten Wi-Fi devices? Big deal. How many more devices have had their wi-fi removed at the behest of carriers? Why does my Blackjack have no wi-fi, but the European version does? And even when the carriers deign to leave the wi-fi in, is it open? Can you bypass per-minute charges via VOIP? Finally, the 700 device number is a huge red herring. How many of those are variations of the same handset? More importantly, of that number, how many had features crippled or removed? The fact remains that because of the carriers, we have fewer choices and fewer third-party services. I should be able to buy any device I want, pop in a SIM, and do anything I want with it. Instead, I can get a crippled, but subsidized, handset from the carrier, and if I want additional services I can buy them from the carrier. $40 a month for unlimited data because the wi-fi was removed. $10 a month for telenav because the GPS was crippled or removed. Overpriced music downloads because the bluetooth was crippled. Overpriced software because the java was crippled.

]]> By: Fed up of mobile operators http://www.mobilecrunch.com/2007/07/24/ctia-dispels-wireless-myths/#comment-220856 Fed up of mobile operators Tue, 24 Jul 2007 23:46:17 +0000 http://mobilecrunch.com/2007/07/24/ctia-dispels-wireless-myths/#comment-220856 Mobile Operators WORLDWIDE have kept the wireless industry in the stone age. I sincerly hope Google will change things I think most of mobile operators´ management should be just beaten badly for ruining so many startups who offered them over the years so many good ideas.... it is a pity , a shame Mobile Operators WORLDWIDE have kept the wireless industry in the stone age.

I sincerly hope Google will change things

I think most of mobile operators´ management should be just beaten badly for ruining so many startups who offered them over the years so many good ideas….

it is a pity , a shame

]]>