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THREE: WALLED GARDENS The carriers continue to block access to their networks by mobile startups even as these innovators offer new ways to watch and share video, trade pictures, and use phones in new ways. "They control the industry but strangle innovation," says mobile industry consultant Chetan Sharma. They limit the things you can do with your phone. They want you to pay them for picture messaging, so they restrict independent providers of that type of service. They want you to buy ringtones from them, so they cut off growth and innovation in that mini-industry. They would prefer...
...sort of competition in the mobile world that enabled the high-speed access offered by better Internet Service Providers to topple AOL's old stranglehold on its customers. The carriers argue that they have continued to innovate: "Over the last five years," says Verizon Wireless spokeswoman Brenda Raney, "wireless phones have gone from simple calling devices to multifaceted device entertainment and productivity tools, because of broadband-like technology." But American carriers have a long way to go. Phone service in the U.S. remains several steps behind Europe and Asia...
...There was a time not too long ago when the wait for telephone service in some areas of Delhi territory was 15 years. Today it's different: I haven't heard any reports of cell-phone-signal dropout in the area Robinson mentioned. Yes, India has problems, but it has come a long way in the past few decades. And far from being a burden, democracy is our biggest insurance against momentum being gained in the wrong direction. Sunil Bajpai, NEW DELHI...
...amused by how Robinson let little hiccups like power outages and cell-phone failures distort the big picture of India. The very fact that India's remote and hilly northeastern terrain has passable roads, suvs, cell-phone service and hotels speaks of momentum and progress. India offers abundant opportunities to get rich quick. Indeed, the countless foreign businessmen and women who come to India are worried more about cell connectivity in Delhi than malnourished children in Noida. I am a regular visitor to China and a keen follower of Chinese progress. One must realize that that country opened...
...School Committee contracted Opinion Dynamics Corporation, a Cambridge-based market research firm, to conduct the study. Opinion Dynamics interviewed 500 parents by phone, 200 of whom have children in the schools, 200 of whom have withdrawn their children, and 100 whose children could be potential students...