Draft Bill Could Unlock iPhone
This is fairly irrelevant to this site, but I’ve been drooling over the iPhone since it was just a rumor. Therefore, news such as this tends to excite me.
A draft law proposed by Representative Ed Markey (D-Mass.) would require mobile providers to offer subsidy-free wireless equipment which would effectively break the exclusive deal between Apple and AT&T.
Now, I’m not sure how I feel about the ethics of the whole thing. I do support a company’s right to make exclusive deals. I just (selfishly) would like to be able to buy an iPhone here in Montana!
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[...] In a post this morning, I referred to a draft bill in congress that had the potential to end the exclusive agreement between Apple and AT&T in the US, thus making the iPhone available with other carriers. [...]
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