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FFH5
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join:2002-03-03
Tavistock NJ

FFH5

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Ford idea for in-car wireless is better than GMs IMHO

I like Ford's idea of communicating with all smartphones for in-car apps instead of GMs plan to build-in hardware and only communicate with AT&T. Ford's will be more flexible over a number of years and will also be more competive by supporting many different carriers.

CaptainRR
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join:2006-04-21
Blue Rock, OH
·AT&T Wireless Br..

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Re: Ford idea for in-car wireless is better than GMs IMHO

I have a 08 Ford Focus with the SYNC in it been using iHeart radio through it on the Bluetooth since I bought the car. It will do anything I want with it through the Bluetooth why would I want another data plan? I also own a 09 GMC pickup truck and have no desire to subscribe to the OnStar. I use the auxilery input on that for iHeart and my portable Sirius satelite radio. I have parents that tried the OnStar thing and they didnt care for it for the price and let there plans run out on them.

FFH5
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join:2002-03-03
Tavistock NJ

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re:LTE compatibility in the U.S. still years away

That is too bad. Some real competition could have been achieved if your new smartphone could have roamed across LTE on all the major carriers. While the carriers really don't want LTE compatibility, much of the blame lies with the FCC who didn't set aside Frequencies for LTE that could have been used by all carriers.

KrK
Heavy Artillery For The Little Guy
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join:2000-01-17
Tulsa, OK

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Re: re:LTE compatibility in the U.S. still years away

Compatibility with LTE increases (albeit only a little) competition, if consumers have the option to jump providers with existing hardware at will. They don't want it to be easy and painless like it is in Europe.
88615298 (banned)
join:2004-07-28
West Tenness

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to FFH5
said by FFH5:

That is too bad. Some real competition could have been achieved if your new smartphone could have roamed across LTE on all the major carriers. While the carriers really don't want LTE compatibility, much of the blame lies with the FCC who didn't set aside Frequencies for LTE that could have been used by all carriers.

Let's say all phones were LTE compatible with all carriers. You still can't use a Verizon phone on at&t or vise versa if you actually want to you know make phone calls or even text. Verizon still uses CMDA for that and at&t still uses GSM. At&t says it will refarm EDGE for LTE by 2018 with no timetable for 3G while Verizon says it will refarm both 1x and 3G for LTE by 2012. So yeah you have a awhile to wait.

FFH5
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join:2002-03-03
Tavistock NJ

FFH5

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Details on Comcast's 6 strike plan

What Comcast says: »customer.comcast.com/hel ··· talerts/

BitTorrent story on Comcast's plan:
»torrentfreak.com/comcast ··· -130227/

After the 4th strike Comcast will stick it to you:
»customer.comcast.com/hel ··· measures

Comcast will apply “mitigation measures” to subscribers who receive more than 4 Copyright Alerts. Comcast will place a persistent alert in any web browser under that account until the account holder contacts Comcast’s Customer Security Assurance professionals to discuss and help resolve the matter. We will never use account termination as a mitigation measure under the CAS. We have designed the pop-up browser alerts not to interfere with any essential services obtained over the Internet.

The browser alert system has been tested for years by Comcast as part of our program to alert our subscribers when their Internet access device is infected by a malicious bot, and the alert technology is now being deployed for this purpose

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Re: Details on Comcast's 6 strike plan

said by FFH5:

After the 4th strike Comcast will stick it to you:
»customer.comcast.com/hel ··· measures

Comcast will apply “mitigation measures” to subscribers who receive more than 4 Copyright Alerts. Comcast will place a persistent alert in any web browser under that account until the account holder contacts Comcast’s Customer Security Assurance professionals to discuss and help resolve the matter. We will never use account termination as a mitigation measure under the CAS. We have designed the pop-up browser alerts not to interfere with any essential services obtained over the Internet.

The browser alert system has been tested for years by Comcast as part of our program to alert our subscribers when their Internet access device is infected by a malicious bot, and the alert technology is now being deployed for this purpose

That would be the 5th strike not the 4th

to subscribers who receive more than 4 Copyright Alerts.

more than 4 is 5.

plk
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join:2002-04-20
united state

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Hackers cyberwar

This just makes my blood boil!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
Why in the hell is our stuff like this still connected to the Internet.
I remember the cyberwars on PBS back in 2002 (»www.pbs.org/wgbh/pages/f ··· yberwar/ )
China and other have stole hundreds of billions from us and we are sitting on our asses. WOW!
Where are the trade sanctions
Why is all this stuff still on the internet?
Where is internet 3 for just this kind of stuff

Seems we are more worried about someone coping a movie then top secret plans for a plane.

Had to rant