Comments on: For Ma Bell, Nowhere to Hide from the Internet

By: Hide Windows Free

Hide Windows Free — Sun, 31 Aug 2008 11:47:42 +0000

Iphone is great, but will not do for Europe. The GPS feature is not as powerful as the ones in smart-phones. Good for web browsing and music though

By: Roger Smith

Roger Smith — Tue, 16 Jan 2007 11:38:10 +0000

iPhone is available with Cingular ONLY!? And what if I am stuck under contract with a carrier OTHER than Cingular but still want a iPhone?
Well, the only solution I could fine was http://www.Cellswapper.com – they get you out of any cell phone contract!

By: Richard Hamilton

Richard Hamilton — Fri, 12 Jan 2007 09:23:10 +0000

I too like this piece although I think the iPhone comment does show a blindspot. The iPhone actually represents vertical integration, albeit small, by Cingular working closely with the world's best interface design company, Apple, on the terminal end. It might be a new model. Not dissimilar to what AT&T has done with Microsoft on the IPTV end. In both cases, AT&T/Cingular are bringing network-based features to the party (visual voicemail, QoS) to make the end service delivery more compelling, something a dumb Internet cannot do. This is perhaps why they are willing to let the net neutrality issue go -- in any case, this strikes me as the right way for a network provider to add value and avoid becoming a bandwidth utility.

By: Jesse Kopelman

Jesse Kopelman — Thu, 11 Jan 2007 23:22:29 +0000

I like this piece. However, how is the iPhone an entirely new category of communications device? It is in the same category as a Windows Mobile smartphone -- smartphone. There is not a single thing you can do on the iPhone you can't do on a Windows Mobile. Hopefully you can do them better on the iPhone, but that remains to be seen.