http://mossblog.allthingsd.com/20071021/free-my-phone/ Occasional musings from Walt, in text and video. Mon, 16 Apr 2012 06:47:09 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.3.2 http://mossblog.allthingsd.com/20071021/free-my-phone/comment-page-4/#comment-2678 Cellphone Perestroika - Walt Mossberg - Mossblog - AllThingsD Fri, 09 Mar 2012 00:01:47 +0000 http://mossblog.allthingsd.com/20071021/free-my-phone/#comment-2678 [...] As regular readers know, I have frequently attacked the U.S. wireless phone carriers for exerting near-total control over what phones, software and services American consumers can use on their networks. In fact, since 2005, I have dubbed the carriers “the Soviet ministries,” for inserting themselves between the producers of mobile hardware and software and the people who might want to use these products. My most recent essay on this topic, called “Free My Phone,” ran in The Wall Street Journal and here on Mossblog only last month. You can read it here. [...] [...] As regular readers know, I have frequently attacked the U.S. wireless phone carriers for exerting near-total control over what phones, software and services American consumers can use on their networks. In fact, since 2005, I have dubbed the carriers “the Soviet ministries,” for inserting themselves between the producers of mobile hardware and software and the people who might want to use these products. My most recent essay on this topic, called “Free My Phone,” ran in The Wall Street Journal and here on Mossblog only last month. You can read it here. [...]

]]> http://mossblog.allthingsd.com/20071021/free-my-phone/comment-page-4/#comment-2370 “The Soviet ministries” force Google to nix Android tethering | 9to5 Google | Beyond Good and Evil Sat, 07 May 2011 20:34:36 +0000 http://mossblog.allthingsd.com/20071021/free-my-phone/#comment-2370 [...] carriers – you gotta love those guys. The Wall Street Journal columnist Walt Mossberg once likened them “the Soviet ministries”, the definition which is still true today. No matter how you [...] [...] carriers – you gotta love those guys. The Wall Street Journal columnist Walt Mossberg once likened them “the Soviet ministries”, the definition which is still true today. No matter how you [...]

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]]> http://mossblog.allthingsd.com/20071021/free-my-phone/comment-page-4/#comment-2291 Walt Mossberg: US cellphone carriers are like Soviet ministries « Rose Cantine Thu, 17 Feb 2011 00:53:10 +0000 http://mossblog.allthingsd.com/20071021/free-my-phone/#comment-2291 [...] the rest of his post about “freeing the [...] [...] the rest of his post about “freeing the [...]

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