WSJ: Carriers are Soviet Ministries
Noted technology columnist Walt Mossberg wrote a scathing indictment of the four major U.S. wireless carriers in today’s Wall Street Journal.
Similar to what happened with landlines in the 60’s and 70’s, carriers force you to use only certain handsets, and they lock them so that you can’t take your phone from one carrier to the next, Mossberg wrote. And since the government hasn’t yet intervened, the way it eventually did in the 70’s with landlines, there are even two completely incompatible networks: Sprint and Verizon, which use one type called CDMA, and AT&T and T-Mobile, which use another type called GSM.
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