Peck’s Agenda

As an iPhone owner and wireless industry expert, the back and forth between users of the phone, and the nation’s largest wireless carrier, AT&T Mobility, gets more heated every day, and more interesting to observe. Personally, I don’t like Apple’s decision to agree to an exclusive carrier deal, when they could make far more money globally selling the iPhone as an unlocked GSM handset, but I understand Apple’s reasoning, since the process of setting up a traditional GSM phone is slow and inconvenient and not something Apple would want to put there customers through. That said, all this bickering from iPhone owners about the big T not unlocking there handsets is just ignorance from users, who knew from the start that the iphone would not be covered under the standard unlocking policies of AT&T. As many others have predicted, I believe that by early next year, the FCC will force AT&T to provide an unlocking solution for the iphone in order to comply with the recent amendments to the Digital Millennium Copyright Act, which state that all carriers (including those using CDMA or iDEN) must unlock phones on request after 3 months of paid service. Ignorant users aside, this is an unnecessary roadblock people who own the phone, and I encourage you to submit a complaint to the FCC, I already did by phone, but you can also make submissions via e-mail. — Heres the link to the Consumerist article.