The problem for us is Verizon and companies that lease it's towers went cdma. Every where else went GSM. They can keep the same phone and swap sim cards at the drop of the hat when they get tired of one company and go with another. This just isn't as easy for us. So the companies can hold us hostage and keep our phone tech down by trying to put the lockdown on our devices. Verizon finally started to wake up and allow open source devices though because of their iphone mistake.
It would be interesting to see what the phone market would be like if Verizon didn't make the stupid mistake of turning down Apple.
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