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Originally Posted by maxnix
So glad we have a choice of technologies rather than monopolies granted by the government!
Welcome to America!
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LOL don't even get me started about monopolies in America. How about the Cable Companies eh? But seriously, by proposing if we had only GSM instead of CDMA as well we would somehow be worse off is preposterous. Unification of standards or technologies that all serve a common function or the same function can only lead to better interchangeability as well as an overall better experience for the end user. As it stands now the process of taking over a CDMA phone to another CDMA carrier is extremely complicated and troublesome even for more advanced users. The government needs to step in and lay down laws that require handsets to be fully open and create a set of standards that allow people to easily switch phones from one carrier to another. These phones and providers have created a system in which it is nearly impossible to take a phone from one provider to another and have an experience that is at all as good as you would have had if the phone was used on the intended provider, sometimes no matter how much hacking goes into it.