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On 2007-07-14, Elmo P. Shagnasty <elmop@nastydesigns.com> wrote:

> The Sprint guy may just be hedging his bets; the FCC is making noises
> about moving that direction with the new spectrum that's coming up in
> February 2009 when they shut down analog TV transmission.

Specifically, you won't be able to force people to use locked phones on 700
MHz, the band in question; I've never heard anything said about contracts.

Of course, the FCC wants people to be able to use any carrier with a given
phone. Surely they're intelligent enough to know there are TECHNICAL reasons
why a GSM (AT&T, T-Mo) phone won't work on a CDMA (Verizon, Alltel, SPrint)
carrier?