Elector, I too am a proponent of wireless carriers providing data and cellular service and access to the network. They should not be in the hardware/handset business. It gives them too much con...
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Elector, I too am a proponent of wireless carriers providing data and cellular service and access to the network. They should not be in the hardware/handset business. It gives them too much control and can lead to monopolies within monopolies. Not to mention incompetency. But, as long as Verizon dictates what software and bloatware must be on phones, what OS features can remain and which must be removed or disabled, what SIM cards can be used, what frequencies a phone can support (beyond their own), what buttons a phone can have, whether a phone bootloader can be locked or unlocked .... , etc. they are in part responsible for hardware and OS failures. Under these conditions all blame cannot and should not be shifted to the manufacturer My plea: FCC, FTC, or whoever remove the wireless carriers from handset control. The carriers will not do it by themselves.