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by charlotteley 3816 days ago
How can the manufacturers cooperate with the carriers all over the world? Conflict of interest is huge. In a lot of countries, governments own the carriers or the market is oligopoly. Can they make carriers agree with it?
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roaming agreements? set up a virtual carrier somewhere, and then basically pay other carriers for traffic your customers produce on their networks? Stuff like that has been commonplance in the GSM world since, well, forever.
Kindle 3g works pretty much everywhere.