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It's not blacklisting, it's WHITElisting which is much worse - all the phones not explicitly sold by AT&T or otherwise approved will not work. So you pretty muc
by izacus 5y ago
It's not blacklisting, it's WHITElisting which is much worse - all the phones not explicitly sold by AT&T or otherwise approved will not work. So you pretty much don't have a free market choice of your device despite it being compatible with the network.
- mikro2nd 5y agoKickbacks from the "approved" manufacturers to the phone co in return for exclusive access to their market. Yet another revenue stream... All supporting my growing conviction that phone co's are constitutionally incapable of delivering good internet connectivity and should be forced out of that game as soon as, and by any means possible.
- sitkack 5y agoIt is almost like we should break them up for such practices.
- kedean 5y agoAfter they just spent 15 years consolidating into a handful of providers?