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4 carriers have all the say on what's on cellphones

March 31, 2007

Many analysts and consumer advocates say consumers should prefer a European-style system, where carriers operate open networks and let device and application makers compete directly for customers.

"The carriers don't want to have service providers dealing directly with consumers because it would relegate them to a commodity provider of information transfer," said John Barrett, director of research at Parks Associates in Dallas.

"It would be a better arrangement for customers, but a bad one for carriers. Commodity service providers don't make much money."

From the article "4 carriers have all the say on what's on cellphones," by Andrew Smith

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