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• On the post: Broadcasters And Cable Companies Trying Harder Than Ever To Annoy Paying Customers With Ugly Public Contract Disputes

  

  Kasey Krehbiel ( profile ), 04 Nov, 2014 @ 10:08am

  Re: Re: By the numbers: an analysis

  Yup. The commercials are completely free. For now.

• On the post: You Don't Own What You Thought You Bought: Verizon Breaks Phones; Turns Off Feature

  

  Kasey Krehbiel ( profile ), 12 Jul, 2011 @ 11:36am

  Re: Re: They did this to the Droid X long ago

  First of all, most GB ROMs don't have wireless tethering enabled by default. Verizon's "blocks" put a stop to that, if a temporary one. Second,
  
  http://www.droidforums.net/forum/liberty-rom-dx/157745-liberty-2-0-1-stock-apex-cm7-etc-any-rom-liberty-gb.html
  
  Written by yours truly. G'day.

• On the post: You Don't Own What You Thought You Bought: Verizon Breaks Phones; Turns Off Feature

  

  Kasey Krehbiel ( profile ), 12 Jul, 2011 @ 11:34am

  Re: Re: They did this to the Droid X long ago

  That's not true at all. It is entirely possible (it was a lot easier with FroYo) to use your Droid X as a tethering device.

• On the post: You Don't Own What You Thought You Bought: Verizon Breaks Phones; Turns Off Feature

  

  Kasey Krehbiel ( profile ), 12 Jul, 2011 @ 10:21am

  Re: Re: They did this to the Droid X long ago

  Oops. Thought it was. Either way it's on Google's code server, and I don't see it going anywhere anytime soon. :-D

• On the post: You Don't Own What You Thought You Bought: Verizon Breaks Phones; Turns Off Feature

  

  Kasey Krehbiel ( profile ), 12 Jul, 2011 @ 10:16am

  They did this to the Droid X long ago

  When the Droid X got its Gingerbread update a few months ago, it included this same functionality killer (Why wasn't it a story back then?!) Fortunately, Google is shaking Verizon's hand with one hand while holding a dagger in the other. The newest beta version of their Wireless Tether app defeats Verizon's blocks.
  
  You can find it here:
  http://code.google.com/p/android-wifi-tether/

• On the post: FCC Finally Admits US Broadband Competitiveness Sucks; Broadband Co's Then Order Their Favorite Politicians To Trash FCC

  

  Kasey Krehbiel ( profile ), 21 Jul, 2010 @ 04:23am

  LightSquared Broadband

  Eventually, the tiered pricing plans Verizon and AT&T and their price gouging, profit-mongering and competition-limiting are going to are going to come back and bite them really hard, and I hope guys like these are the culprits:
  
  http://arstechnica.com/telecom/news/2010/07/get-ready-for-lightsquared-broadband-verizon-and-att-not-fans.ars
  
  LightSquared broadband is "the nation's first wholesale-only integrated wireless broadband and satellite network." It's 4G LTE backed up by satellite. Hopefully, this will be the final straw toward a single bill for communications access. No more phone, then internet, then TV, then cell phone, then cell internet bills. Hopefully.