FCC Rules Could Be Boon For Technology Companies;Loosening Telecom's Grip
“Google, Skype and others in the high-tech industry say large telecom firms stifle innovation by controlling which mobile devices, software and services subscribers can use and “locking” phones to a particular carrier. For example, AT&T has exclusive carriage of Apple Inc.’s iPhone. Those Internet companies have had difficulty bringing services such as free Web calling to the mobile-phone market, while handset makers like Nokia Corp. have had trouble bringing popular European phones to the U.S., where the telecom operators control what phones are used on their networks’….
