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Five years after the iPhone, carriers are the biggest threat to innovation | The Verge

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The whole situation is fascinating.

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bandwidth bandwidth bandwidth

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The carriers don't want to give up any more control than they have to.

Is the solution for Google, Microsoft, and Apple to become carriers?

Verizon, Comcast, and AT&T are too expensive but Google, Microsoft, or Apple could afford T-Mobile and/or Sprint (worth roughly $17b and $10b, respectively).

That could get real interesting real fast.

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complete merge of owning that packet, from start to finish...

Since we're on the subject, what ever happened to Google's dark fiber project?

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