[governance] net neutrality and mobiles

[McTim]

On Thu, Sep 23, 2010 at 8:49 AM, parminder <parminder at itforchange.net> wrote:
> Hi All
>
> See below more news of continued vertical integration and violation of net
> neutrality principle in developing countries (wonder how is it in developed
> countries

It's the same.  Handsets always come bundled with crapware, just like most PCs.


, and developing countries like Brazil which have a general NN
> agreement).
>
> Customised handsets take one directly to a telecom operator controlled
> portal,

You mean like Compuserve and AOL in the early days of the commercial
Internet?  Nothing new under the sun I'm afraid.

-- 
Cheers,

McTim
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