Comments on: Hell Freezes Over: Verizon to Open Network to “Any Apps, Any Device” http://uneasysilence.com/archive/2007/11/12726/ Sat, 07 Nov 2009 15:32:51 -0600 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.8.5 hourly 1 By: G R E G H I S C O T T http://uneasysilence.com/archive/2007/11/12726/comment-page-1/#comment-400096 G R E G H I S C O T T Tue, 27 Nov 2007 19:02:01 +0000 http://uneasysilence.com/archive/2007/11/12726/#comment-400096 With CDMA carriers, the locking is in the system. In other words, the system will not play with a phone unless the phone's unique ID is in the system A CDMA phone is not "locked" but is made unusable because it is not "registered" with the system. The point of these two stories is that the carriers are both saying they will now register anyphone that comes to them and that is compatible. They are all so scared to loose market share that they are forced to make this concesssion. It is about time. One bad thing about this is that stolen phones can now easily be activated on the other carrier unless somebody builds an open database of stolen CDMA phone IDs... With CDMA carriers, the locking is in the system. In other words, the system will not play with a phone unless the phone’s unique ID is in the system A CDMA phone is not “locked” but is made unusable because it is not “registered” with the system. The point of these two stories is that the carriers are both saying they will now register anyphone that comes to them and that is compatible.

They are all so scared to loose market share that they are forced to make this concesssion. It is about time.

One bad thing about this is that stolen phones can now easily be activated on the other carrier unless somebody builds an open database of stolen CDMA phone IDs…

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