The iPhone Has Enslaved Mobile Carriers
The big three cell phone carriers have a paradoxical relationship with the iPhone: each carrier needs the device to survive, but the more iPhones they sell, the more money they seem to lose.
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As if Google's launching a free Wi-Fi network in New York City earlier this month wasn't curious enough, now the search giant is asking the FCC for a license to create an "experimental radio service."
The big three cell phone carriers have a paradoxical relationship with the iPhone: each carrier needs the device to survive, but the more iPhones they sell, the more money they seem to lose.
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