[SATLUG] [OT] Cell phone rant / open source idea

[Brad Knowles]

On 7/17/07, Thomas King wrote:

>>  It's strange that no one on the list has mentioned the OpenMoko
>>  (www.openmoko.com).  I'm seriously considering getting one of these.
>
>  It says it's a quad-band GSM phone. IIRC, that is the type of network
>  that Cingular, T-Mobile, and a few others use, correct?

Cingular/AT&T and T-Mobile are the only carriers in the US that use 
GSM, yes.  All other GSM carriers in the US are actually MVNOs 
(Mobile Virtual Network Operators) using either the Cingular/AT&T or 
T-Mobile networks, or they were smaller carriers that got bought by 
Cingular/AT&T or T-Mobile and are used as a brand under which service 
from one of these two is sold.

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