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join:2005-01-28
Miami, FL | ! If Skype was smart they would simply make a java application that is able to run on cellphones which from there are allowed to use the data connection on your phone which in most cases is unlimited.
Of course you will have huge latency, and a nice gap between responses and the occasional dropped call due to a 1xRTT starving to receive the data as fast as it can.
Of course Skype knew this would not work and now want a free ride on the wireless carriers so they can provide their services. But they do not want to pay to lease the towers because then they would not be able to offer unlimited calling anymore.
Either Skype thinks the FCC are complete dumb asses or this is a complete joke. My phone which I bought from carrier is by far nor crippled and I have been able to use it for anything I want beside switch carriers because it's CDMA and not GSM. GSM also is the "universal phone" since you can swap SIMs from another provider on your current GSM phone.
You pay for a calling plan, if you want internet that's extra, if you want SMS, that's extra, if you want cheap international wireless rates that's extra.
What you get is what you pay, don't give me some idiotic excuse either that calling plan and internet are both together or should be the same because they by far are not.
The companies who are crippling their phones are Verizon from what I am aware of, as for Cingular I highly doubt it since it's GSM.
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