Friday, December 07, 2007
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AT&T flings cellphone network wide open
AT&T flings cellphone network wide open
USA Today
By Leslie Cauley

Starting immediately, AT&T (T) customers can ditch their AT&T phones 
and use any wireless phone, device and software application from any 
maker — think smartphones, e-mail and music downloading. And they 
don't have to sign a contract.
"You can use any handset on our network you want," says Ralph de la 
Vega, CEO of AT&T's wireless business. "We don't prohibit it, or even 
police it."

AT&T's push to give consumers maximum control of their wireless worlds 
is being driven, in part, by Google. The tech giant is a monster in 
the Internet search business for personal computers, and is hoping to 
replicate that success in the wireless market.

<http://www.usatoday.com/money/industries/telecom/2007-12-05-att_N.htm>





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"Basically, absolutely nothing happened here except that AT&T's 
marketing crew declared that AT&T's network is now open, and convinced 
USA Today to report it as if it were a big deal. If there was any 
change at all within AT&T, it's that retail store employees are now 
supposed to admit that you can use other devices on the network, 
rather than pretending you can't. Not quite as exciting as "flinging 
the network open," though."
 http://www.techdirt.com/articles/20071206/030232.shtml

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