marozner
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join:2004-05-15
Houston, TX
| ATT & tehtering
I am lost here. If one pays for data, what difference does it make how the data is obtained?
Perhaps AT&T ought to revisit Carterphone vs American Telephone and Telegraph.
In the old days, AT&T tariffs forbid the connection of privately owned equipment to the public telephone network. This tariff was eventually found to be unreasonable. Not to be outdone, AT&T then required customers using the Carerphone (or other nonATT equipment) to have an interconnect device (and, of course, rent it). This practice also was found inconsistent with public policy, and, I think, led to the breakup of the AT&T monopoly.
Currently, though, it appears that the FCC is against application of Carterphone policy to wireless, but I bet that this position changes in the near future. |
