[Asterisk-biz] anti trust law against cisco , good for the industry.

[Eric Wieling aka ManxPower]

Adrian Chapman wrote:
> Rehan Ahmed AllahWala - Super Technologies I wrote:
> 
>> A very experienced telecom company chairman last claimed to me that if 
>> att would not have been broken into the baby bells, today we would not 
>> have cell phones.
> 
> 
> Without wanting to comment on the wisdom or otherwise of the 
> Cisco/Sipura deal, and without being a vast expert on AT&T...
> 
> How, exactly, could AT&T have prevented cellphones taking off?
> 
> I mean, they were only ever in the US, and there's a hell of a lot of 
> the rest of the world out there - most of which the US is desperately 
> trying to play catch-up with on mobiles. GSM. 3G.

By refusing to provide PSTN connections to the cell companies.