Comparison of Mobile Phone Markets

[SSEric]

Verizon has announced they will start letting us use unlocked phones -- some
of them --later this year.  One thing that says to me is we know we are
screwing you and we will continue to do so for as long as we can.

It seems that cellular is about where wired phones were just before the end
of Ma Bell.  The locking into long-term contracts, branding devices and only
allowing use of those devices, and nickel and diming customers for every
feature seems to be about to end.  I am not up on such things, but what
effect will Google jumping in have on the way all of us here do business.