jfmezei
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| CDMA was never meants to be open
Verizon uses Qualcomm's proprietary CDMA protocols. This was never meant to be "open", and customers were never meant to be able to buy phones on their own and activate them on a network with CDMA.
(GSM on the other hand was architected that way with SIM cards).
So Verizon's announcement is fairly devoid of actual impact, especially since they are making this empty ennouncement now with it only going into effect in a year's time. This is simply a ploy to affect politicians' opinions in the 700mhz auctions.
Remember that due to all the proprietary nature of CDMA as welll as all the patent issues, the number/variety of CDMA handsets is going to remain quite limited. There just isn't a big market of CDMA phone available in stores.
And as long as Sprint locks their handsets, then Verizon can't even accept ex-Sprint customers wanting to bring their Sprint phone over to Verizon. (Unless both Sprint and Verizon decide to allow each other's phones to be switched to each other's network). |
