What that means Larry is your non VZ network phone will go up in value
and existing crippled and locked VZ phones will decline in value now
that users have a choice.

On Nov 27, 9:51 pm, Larry <no...@home.com> wrote:
> George <geo...@nospam.invalid> wrote innews:EsednXFhI7K6DNHanZ2dnUVZ_qCdnZ2d@comcast.co m:
>
>
>
> > The interesting thing will be is if we actually see an
> immediate
> > reduction in plan costs since no subsidy recovery will be
> involved and
> > if crippling stops since devices will still need to be built to
> spec
> > will that spec include say crippling all GPS receivers such as
> they
> > currently do in the Blackberries and Novatel USB modems.
>
> I suspect one of the "certain standards" is the ability to upload
> Verizon's crippleware to the phone, turning off anything they
> think they can SELL back to you. Wanna bet?
>
> If you get a chance, take an Alltel CDMA, GPS-enabled phone into
> VZW and ask them to put it on your plan. See if they want to
> upload their crippleware to it, then report back here what
> happened....(c; Alltel's phones aren't crippled like VZW's are.
>
> Larry
> --
> Isn't it ironic that the same ISPs that are telling you
> you're downloads threaten their networks......
> ....are testing 100Gbps TV to sell on the SAME systems?http://tinyurl.com/27qx3v