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• Title: Unlocking the Wireless Safe: Opening up the Wireless World for Consumers.
• Author : Federal Communications Law Journal
• Release Date : January 01, 2009
• Genre: Law,Books,Professional & Technical,
• Pages : * pages
• Size : 310 KB

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I. INTRODUCTION Frustrated with the way that wireless carriers choose which applications they offer and which phones customers can use on their networks, a growing number of companies and interest groups are pushing to place these decisions in the hands of consumers. These groups want the FCC to take away some of the restrictive power that the wireless network operators hold over their networks in order to create an open network where consumers are free to use the handset of their choice and run any application they choose. The opposing wireless carriers want to retain the control they have historically retained over their wireless networks. The carriers would prefer to let the market, rather than the FCC, decide if consumers are actually demanding open networks. Internet phone service provider Skype Technologies (Skype) brought the first major initiative with its petition to the FCC asking for the application of the Carterfone (1) decision to the wireless industry. The FCC has yet to issue a ruling on this petition, and there have been many recent developments since June 2007 that may have an effect on the FCC's ultimate decision. This Note will track these developments relating to the open networks initiative and evaluate whether the relief that Skype is requesting is appropriate. In light of the current state of the wireless industry, the FCC should (1) require the carriers to provide technical standards detailing what kind of equipment and applications will be allowed to connect to their networks, (2) encourage the carriers to allow any devices which conform to be used by consumers, and (3) allow the carriers to continue to control what kinds of applications may connect to their networks.

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