Jesus, can we not encourage this? Getting the FCC to more tightly regulate phones will have two primary effects: 1. No more open source phones. We'll be even wo

Jesus, can we not encourage this? Getting the FCC to more tightly regulate phones will have two primary effects: 1. No more open source phones. We'll be even worse off than we are now. 2. Phone prices go up. Huge regulatory cost increases for little (or perhaps negative) gain. Just because you think devices should be supported for longer doesn't mean you should try to use the government as a bludgeon to screw over poor people, security-oriented people (who don't want locked-down phones in the long run), and tinkerers/open source advocates. A vastly better approach would be to require phones to be open source in the same way as gambling machines in the US. The code isn't entirely out in the open if the company doesn't want it to be, but anyone can audit it. In the case of phones, people could also fix bugs if they wanted to.