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Lol, carriers will never EVER willingly became "simple internet providers". EVER. They will scream and fight to the last dollar for their "right" to provide mon
by Tooluka 14y ago
Lol, carriers will never EVER willingly became "simple internet providers". EVER. They will scream and fight to the last dollar for their "right" to provide monopolized "services" - separate voice traffic, separate plaintext traffic, separate image traffic, and other "services". They'll cut and limit all generic internet connections, they'll filter unwanted packets (VoIP, iMessage etc.), they'll reroute traffic through their internal resources and inject ADs or spyware. They'll do lots of thing, except of cource becoming ISP.
- arikrak 14y agoBut people might be able to create a wifi alternative without them. E.g. projects that blanket a city with wifi or that share people's routers with others in a secure manner. Then the carriers will be cut out of the picture.
- imaginator 14y agoYou should check some of the MVNO providers in Germany. These mobile operators compete on price and anything that smells like custom development of a blah-portal-blah is cut. There was a time when ISPs used to think the could do value-add crap. Orange-dialup had a news service. BT had a portal and email. Like the ISPs, our carriers will become the fat pipe they fear. Just slower than we'd want.