"vic.healey" <vic.healey@gmail.com> wrote in
news:9a970447-c1ac-48ed-908e-5a2313f0e3f1@s12g2000prg.googlegroups.com:

> Lets see CozmicDebris, you replied without reading the attached NY
> TIMES article which clearly mentioned the iPhone was Verizons
> motivation to act now.

I read the article, but unlike you (apparently), I used a little bit of
accumulated knowledge to read through the inaccuracies. And I'm sorry if
you believe that the NY Times has never been inaccurate in their reporting.

This program will not stop the sale of iPhones and there is no way
technologically that Verizon will be able to put iPhones on their network.
iPhone customers are locked to AT&T for two years.

The iPhone, contrary to the popular Apple opinion, was not the motivator.

>
> I agree the gPhone will also have a big impact but that will be at
> gutting Verizon's existing business model if tgPhones are free to
> users based on ad based revenue. Amazon also has a neat new eBook
> device that uses Sprint. It is free to consumers to use to even browse
> the world wide web from anywhere on the Sprint network at no charge
> from Sprint.

At no charge from Sprint, but at an increased price from Amazon. And $400
for an ebook reader is rather pricey.

>
> FREE is GOOD. GREED is BAD.

And yet it is not free.

>