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In a private meeting of a task force called G.S.M.A. North America this year, AT&T and Verizon pushed for the ability to lock phones to their networks, bypassin

In a private meeting of a task force called G.S.M.A. North America this year, AT&T and Verizon pushed for the ability to lock phones to their networks, bypassing the purpose of eSIM technology, said Harold Feld, a senior vice president of Public Knowledge, a nonprofit consumer group, who was briefed on the meeting. Verizon has said it needed to be able to lock down phones to prevent theft and fraud. To prevent theft and fraud?! They literally have no shame, and I hope the government throws the book at them. Telecoms and ISP’s are just the worst of the worst, along with banks, and both need aggressive oversight to stop them from outright robbing us all and calling it “holding your money for safekeeping.”

nashashmi 9y ago
Verizon has an army of lawyers. That is the best line they can come up with because they are not creative, or reasonable, or as enthusiastic about their jobs, just enough to get by with whatever mentality they have adopted in their careers. And lawyers have no ability to self reflect with conscience. If they did, how could they do their jobs.
flyingcircus3 9y ago
I hope they cast Al Pacino in a good role when they make this period piece in a couple of decades. He's got pretty good experience from his previous role as Michael Corleone. Corleone goes to Cuba just before the Castro Regime takes over, and meets with the heads of United fruit company, At&t, and other companies that were too big too fail in 1959. In his characteristic savvy, he sees the entire trip for what it is, and predicts his own assassination, figures out who's been the mole in his family, and attempts his own capitalist venture, if you will. It's a good thing we snuffed out all that organized crime. https://youtu.be/OM9sIbddq24 https://youtu.be/OM9sIbddq24
rrdharan 9y ago
Apple’s Kill switch actually has dramatically reduced fraud rates. https://www.igeeksblog.com/apple-kill-switch-reduced-iphone-theft-worldwide/ https://www.igeeksblog.com/apple-kill-switch-reduced-iphone-... Short of Google building something like this, with all the concerns and disputes that would lead to, it seems like the carriers almost certainly need to build something like this for Android phones?

nashashmi 9y ago

Verizon has an army of lawyers. That is the best line they can come up with because they are not creative, or reasonable, or as enthusiastic about their jobs, just enough to get by with whatever mentality they have adopted in their careers. And lawyers have no ability to self reflect with conscience. If they did, how could they do their jobs.

flyingcircus3 9y ago

I hope they cast Al Pacino in a good role when they make this period piece in a couple of decades. He's got pretty good experience from his previous role as Michael Corleone. Corleone goes to Cuba just before the Castro Regime takes over, and meets with the heads of United fruit company, At&t, and other companies that were too big too fail in 1959. In his characteristic savvy, he sees the entire trip for what it is, and predicts his own assassination, figures out who's been the mole in his family, and attempts his own capitalist venture, if you will. It's a good thing we snuffed out all that organized crime. https://youtu.be/OM9sIbddq24 https://youtu.be/OM9sIbddq24

rrdharan 9y ago

Apple’s Kill switch actually has dramatically reduced fraud rates. https://www.igeeksblog.com/apple-kill-switch-reduced-iphone-theft-worldwide/ https://www.igeeksblog.com/apple-kill-switch-reduced-iphone-... Short of Google building something like this, with all the concerns and disputes that would lead to, it seems like the carriers almost certainly need to build something like this for Android phones?