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

[alex at pilosoft.com]

On Tue, 26 Apr 2005, 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?
Refusal to interconnect. You take it for granted, but you forget that 30 
years ago, MCI had to file multiple lawsuits just in order to get 
interconnection rights to the AT&T-operated phone network (where the 
expression "law firm with a switch in the back" comes from).

> 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.
I dunno. I kinda like my evdo more than I like GPRS.

-alex