*Source: Information Week (
http://www.informationweek.com/hardw...ed_ TechWeb)*
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Cellular service providers rule their networks with iron fists, an ongoing source of frustration to millions of their customers. Disabled cell phone features, locked phones that work only on one network, a "walled garden" where Web access is controlled by the carrier--some call it cell phone tyranny. But change is in the airwaves, driven in part by business adoption of smartphones, where this play-by-our-rules approach won't be accepted.
By some estimates, nine in 10 cell phones in the United States are sold by carriers, nearly reverse the ratio in other countries. Cellular carriers subsidize the price of phones, then use their dominant positions to impose multiyear contracts with hefty termination fees, offer roaming plans that are useless outside the United States, restrict Web-enabled phones to limited Internet access, and exclude handset features they deem threatening to their business models.
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