Comments on: The (beginning of the) end of the closed world of mobile? https://blog.p2pfoundation.net/the-beginning-of-the-end-of-the-closed-world-of-mobile/2009/01/27 Researching, documenting and promoting peer to peer practices Tue, 27 Jan 2009 19:15:09 +0000 hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=5.5.15 By: Sepp Hasslberger https://blog.p2pfoundation.net/the-beginning-of-the-end-of-the-closed-world-of-mobile/2009/01/27/comment-page-1#comment-369821 Tue, 27 Jan 2009 19:15:09 +0000 http://blog.p2pfoundation.net/?p=2385#comment-369821 It appears that this trend will not only involve the software of mobile devices, but also the very connections into the net they provide.

According to Martin Cooper, co-founder of ArrayComm and father of the cell phone:

“True open access to wireless network is inevitable. In contrast with the Carter decision in which the FCC mandated the open access that initiated the collapse of the wireline walled garden in 1968, wireless open access will happen without intervention by the government or the courts. It will happen for one simple reason: open access is good business…”

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