| reply to frenchfry
Yes, it's a "mini cell tower", so, yes, they could partner with anyone, but if they partnered with, say, a CDMA carrier, then what does the carrier get out of the deal? Its customers' CDMA phones won't work with the device. Sure, MJ could lease the spectrum and give the carrier cold hard cash, but there's a spectrum shortage, so carriers aren't sitting on tons of unused spectrum on the 850 or 1900 bands, which means that it'll take either a cash-starved carrier or a dump truck full of large-denomination bills to make this deal happen. Also, the device is going to have to have a way to determine its location and switch to the frequency the partner carrier is using there. It could use GPS, or it could scan for that carrier's signal, but either solution is going to add cost to making the device.
In short, this scheme is dead in the water, MJ knows it, and that's why they've halted development.
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