Mogul import banned?

[Darth Pooh]

Originally Posted by slacker711

The Mogul is in a grey area with respect to this ban. It is possible that it will fall under the exemption which allows models that have been "imported for sale to the general public" prior to June 7th to continue to be imported and sold. I think if Sprint has a warehouse full of Moguls that were about to go on sale that they will have a case to let importation go on....OTOH, if they dont bring the handsets into the US until closer to the sale date, then they will have a problem.

FWIW, there are still all kinds of possibilities for this ban....there could be a presidential veto, a court could issue a stay, the companies could settle or there could be a work around developed (though testing could take a while). Only time will tell...

If anybody wants to read the exclusion order, you can find it on the USITC home page. I cant link it since this is my first post.

Slacker

Well written.

My thoughts are that the devices are here and have already been here for some time due to the need to flash them for WM6.

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MORE DRAMA!

[garov55]

the company i work for was planning to get sprint bussines account because of this device ................i was so happy that i was going to get the 6800 as soon as it was out for bussines accounts BUT .................


wow after all we may never get it.................lol

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The White House now has 60 days to approve or overturn the ruling, according to the Associated Press. Qualcomm could settle the patent dispute with Broadcom or could appeal today's decision to a federal court.

... If we know washington, this wont get touched until August 6th.

If there is a cease and desist order, there may be no phones shipped until this is all sorted out.

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The Register:

http://www.theregister.co.uk/2007/06...mm_import_ban/

Government Release:

http://www.usitc.gov/ext_relations/n.../er0607ee1.htm

[rawr]

there's always the BB 8830...

[xholmezx78]

hahahhaha you offered the BB 8830! LMAO sorry I thought that was funny! I hate blackberries as I support them all day at work, and so many problems

[garov55]

its a shame all the drama for a pda phone..........
if nothing good comes out ..............
pretty soon i ll be switching to cingular with the new HTC Touch

[rvashi]

That's what I'm saying! GSM actually has some good devices such as iPhone (i think its GSM???) and HTC Touch.

Gone are the days when Sprint actually had some good phones or PPCs. Sprint barely has two or three while AT&T has like 10 of them! I think even T-Mobile has more PDA based devices.

[ran-o-matic]

The iPhone has EDGE (similar in speed to 1xRTT), so there is no problem with it. That's one of the complains people have about the iPhone - it doesn't use the newer UMTS/HSDPA system ATT is building.

The ATT UMTS/HSDPA phones use WCDMA. They will have the same ban as applies to the EVDO phones.