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

[Craig]

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Date: Tue, 26 Apr 2005 16:14:23 -0500
From: Eric Wieling aka ManxPower <eric at fnords.org>
Subject: Re: [Asterisk-biz] 	anti trust law against cisco ,	good for
	the industry.
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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.

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Yes and very few places in the world have landline to mobile call rates
anything like the US. Australia for instance pay between 30-50c for
landline to mobile calls, mainly due to a lack of serious competition in
interconnect to the fixed network.

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