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   Anonymous Coward, Feb 7th, 2008 @ 6:34pm

   
   

   Mike...

   ...I love your posts, but man, you've got to get some key points OTHER than the Streisand Effect and business models.

    

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   Anonymous Coward, Feb 7th, 2008 @ 7:34pm

   
   

   Theft

   The linked article even goes so far as to say that unlocking prepaid phones "amounts to a theft of subsidies" and that the telcos are "working with federal law enforcement officials on the problem". Notice how these companies like to call anything that challenges their business plans "theft"? Sounds like the old "illegal interference with business model" claim to me.
   
   Gimme a break.

    

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   Terry, Feb 7th, 2008 @ 7:36pm

   
   

   Theft by Illegal Interference with Business Model - I love it!

    

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   Ben, Feb 7th, 2008 @ 8:26pm

   
   

   Re: Mike...

   Coward, By trying to draw attention away from the Streisand Effect and business models, you are drawing attention to the Streisand Effect and business models. BTW, nice objective source there, lamenting about theft of subsidies! Nearly fell outta my chair.

    

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   Edmond Woychowsky, Feb 8th, 2008 @ 4:37am

   
   

   AT&T

   This just shows that Jerry Pournelle was right when he said AT&T couldn't market a cure for death.

    

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   jhunter, Feb 8th, 2008 @ 7:06am

   
   

   Trademark

   Maybe they are making a trade mark issue because their logo is on the phone. So when the unlocker sells the unlocked phone it still has an AT&T logo. And I can see how a customer could be confused by this.

    

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   cb, Feb 8th, 2008 @ 8:38am

   
   

   AT&T: If you don't want your phone unlocked and used for other purposes than don't make it, don't market it or don't sell it. Get a life would you. Move on.

    

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   Doug Stewart, Feb 8th, 2008 @ 3:15pm

   
   

   Resale of Phones

   This is a battle that AT&T is destined to lose (and good on that I say).
   
   The Office of Trademarks and Copyrights have already moved that this is a "non-event".
   
   Remember the Tracphone? These jokers tried playing the same game and lost.
   
   If AT&T would spend half as much energy trying to meet their customer's needs as trying to screw them. They'd make more money.

    

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   lou, Feb 24th, 2008 @ 10:52am

   
   

   tracfone sying on customers

   tarcfone--whose carrier is at&t is allowing its cutomer's calls to be spied on by the govenment agencies...if your outgoing calls on tracfone say---as mine does at all times---"CALL DIVERT SET"---you are a victime of the global, war-mongering overlords. i m an american citizen with no criminal records (after near 60 years of life in the "land of the free") and i--nor my friends and family are any part of the "global terrorist network"...the criminal u.s. gov't. is a big brother andwe are on animal farm...god help us....

    

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    Roy, Oct 14th, 2008 @ 7:01pm

    
    

    TracFone or AT&T?

    Look at my video showing a side by side comparison of my iPhone and my TracFone... Go figure.
    
    My AT&T service (Cingular when I started it in March 2002) was so bad and unreliable, I had to purchase a TracFone as a backup. My mom was in Hospice, and I needed to be in touch 27-7... The TracFone was flawless and got "bars" everywhere.
    
    My TracFone/AT&T "shootout can be seen by typing in my "name" ROYINTEXAS on YouTube.

     

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