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While the senators in Washington worry about net neutrality issues which relate to the telco and terrestrial cable networks, Internet telephony provider Skype, eBay has asked the FCC to open up cellular networks to outside devices and applications. While the service, of course, precisely, the petition moves the debate about what kind of role it should play on consumer choice on the public airwaves.
In particular, Skype asks FCC to apply theCarter Phone 1968 decision by the mobile communications industry today. Before that decision, AT & T determines the type of device can be connected to their network, typically, a phone that was sold only by them.
Following the decision of Carter's telephone, the telephone company to check the network stopped the phone. Consumers can choose from an onslaught of new tools and technologies entering the market. Respondingmachines, fax, modem, and finally - an important factor in the Internet boom of the nineties.
Since the FCC began auctioning of spectrum public in 1990, the growth of the mobile phone industry, fungi, changing the very face of telecommunications and the way people communicate around the world. New technology flourished, and today, cellular networks can only carry voice, but are themselves the extent ofInternet.
Developers and equipment manufacturers have come up with mobile applications like SMS, email, surf the full-blown on the Internet, and upload music and video, mobile office applications, VoIP and more. The new generation of mobile phones are now called smart phones, and virtually all the computer can do. Laptops are built with multiple radio access cellular, WiFi and Bluetooth frequencies, and can seamlessly move a call from acellular network to the Internet using VoIP cheaper through a WiFi connection.
U.S. Cell Phone Denial of Services
Although many of these applications and opportunities for overseas networks in the U.S. is a different story. As reported by Dr. Tim Wu in the neutrality of its wireless network card, "... mobile phones are widely available in the U.S. is only a small fraction of available phones in the world."
If theis now in the U.S., the mobile industry has cooked up to four large companies based on two different technologies, and jealously guard their networks. and Sprint's CDMA (Code Division Multiple Access standard), Verizon and AT & T (formerly Cingular Wireless) and T-Mobile uses the GSM standard (Global System Mobile), which now has about 73% of world market share.
As with AT & T phone before Carter, all of the companies to selltheir phones, and block access to their networks at various other levels, using different methods. CDMA phones use an electronic serial number (ESN), which was recorded by the network carrier. Verizon will not allow a mobile phone network that is not sold by them. Sprint Sprint does not allow a device to capture, but strongly discourages and does not provide technical support for these phones.
GSM uses a SIM card, a chip that contains subscriberinformation and is designed to switch to cellular networks by inserting the SIM card of the appropriate carrier. The phones sold by AT & T and T-Mobile comes with the SIM card disabled, leaving them to block the network. E 'possible, though not easy to unlock these phones and' legal to do so in the United States. Not wanting to push the envelope too much, AT & T and T-Mobile unlock their phones, and after an initial period of possession.
In an attempt to maintainRevenue users on their networks, and then the other applications that have crippled cellcos the world. The very popular activities such as downloading music, photos and video are available on the mobile market in the United States, but trying to e-mail or upload to an unauthorized location, and you'll likely find your efforts blocked. Available at an extra charge of course, upload and share your favorite sites approved by the paper carrier.
Bluetooth wireless technology allowsdevices communicate with each other through a short low-frequency radio band. Bluetooth-enabled printers, computers, mobile phones and wireless headsets, users can upload and download media files and send photos to a printer and a free talk on the phone in your hands. And yet U.S. airlines have at one time or another crippled many of the features available via Bluetooth technology.
Probably the most disruptive technology for the wireless mobile phone industry.The 802.11b / g standard provides broadband wireless e-mail, web browsing, communication within the apparatus, and the dreaded, very economical, Voice over Internet Protocol. Internettelephony can bypass the cellular network by sending voice instantly via the Internet through a phone or a WiFi connection.
Equipment manufacturers can integrate technology and Wi-Fi in their phones, but mobile in the U.S. have resistedtooth and nail by paralyzing their WiFi devices, and requires manufacturers to market their versions of the free WiFi phones for the Americans. Although it is technically possible to use Skype to load third-party applications, such as a phone to do this on a WiFi-enabled GSM cellcos would threaten the very business model.
Today mobile phones are very few in America who are able to access. Right now, cell phonesare always available in Europe able to operate on cellular networks and wireless corporate LAN, the business IP / PBX phone system.
In partnership with AT & T, Apple has recently announced its first iPhone is coming in June will also have WiFi capabilities, but to what extent can still be seen. Unfortunately for Skype and others, there will be no third party applications allowed on theiPhone.
The major U.S. airlines offer broadband Internet access over their networks, mainly through the antenna on a PC card connected to a laptop. mobile broadband access is in direct competition with the WiFi hotspots LANCE appear in airports, hotels, businesses and other public facilities. The development of the WiMax 802.16 also add the LAN Metropolitan competitive in the mix.
While WiFiconsiderably faster than cellular networks, designed primarily for short-distance networks and hot spots are located outside. Cellular networks, on the other hand, can offer broadband access where their network capacity.
U.S. airlines to limit the type of services, applications and features are allowed on their network and charge users will be stopped and suspected of violating their contractual agreement. Basically, broadband services to allow only e-mail, browsing andAccess to corporate intranet. Download music and videos from unauthorized sites (iTunes and YouTube for example) and P2P file sharing is prohibited and enforced in some cases by imposing severe restrictions on bandwidth for users.
As the movement of net neutrality on the mobile phone industry
If the first development of the Internet can be likened to the American West, the growth of mobile industry in the United States may becompared to Stalin's Soviet Union. Carrier networks rule developers, device manufactures, and consumers with an iron fist, leaving only the functions and services of their choice on their networks.
Actually, there are some important differences between the Internet and mobile networks. U.S. airlines have spent billions on their share of the wireless spectrum, and reserves the right to determine what features are available to consumers. business executives argue that there is fiercecompetition in the mobile industry, that the determining factor in consumer choice, as opposed to regulation by the government.
Whereas the early days of the Internet has seen an enormous technological innovation from developers and manufacturers because of the inherent openness of mobile networks in the United States were the owners start and auto service.
The concept of net neutrality came from a grass roots movement of cable and telco executives began to talkabout charging a high-bandwidth users, like Google, Vonage, YouTube, to use their pipes. The fear that these companies could then determine what content will be available to consumers threatened the foundation of a free and open Internet.
The mobile phone company, on the other hand, were started by business in a free enterprise society and as such have every right to dictate what services to offer. In the absence of a public outcry from consumersthe right to choose, would regulate the industry seems far from a done deal.
That said, the implementation of the Carter Phone customers seems like a logical step for the monopoly-like tactics of an industry that was responsible for the public to avoid ether. The other players in the field of telecommunications, including cable companies, and must adhere to do so by the ruling.
What is puzzling is that the phone companies might actually open up more revenueflow range of services that consumers want to pay extra. Download music and video from iTunes for example, could be charged by bandwidth usage, and could lead cellcos calling plan that includes the minutes used to call over the Internet.
Of particular interest to businesses is the concept of fixed-mobile convergence, with a mobile phone with a phone that can interfere with cellular networks and Wi-Ficalls that can be made using the traditional landline and VoIP, in addition to radio phone.
Equipment manufacturers such as Nokia are already devices that integrate with corporate IP / PBX systems from Cisco, Avaya, Siemens and others, and route calls on the best network available. While many advances in this technology is made in Europe and other regions, it remains the U.S. market stifling for developers and producers of both.
Willinteresting to see how Skype's petition with the FCC plays. The application of the decision to Carter Phone conceivably open the door for a new development and technological innovation. Otherwise, the mobile phone industry in the U.S. market will depend on slow to catch up with the rest of the world.
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