said by jus10:I don't really think that in the long term AT&T or Verizon have much to fear. They'll just jack up the data prices to cover the usage.
Their resistance is based on fear and frankly, rather dumb. Build the next gen networks so its all data. VoIP, SMS, email, all just packets. Then charge for X amount of data per month. VoIP costs packets and a percentage total of the data per month.
I have texting blocked on my iPhone completely. Paying X amount per message for something which can be included in an email is dumb. Bundle everything together as one data blob and be done with it.
if it gets to the point where they don't have anything to fear, then they need broken up again to create more competition. thats the only thing AT&T is afraid of. their costs are not an issue.
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