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News Not Written About: Google Has Dumbed Down The Nexus 7

Nexus 7 Lock Screen At First Boot

I’ve got me a Google/Asus Nexus 7 Tablet (yep, I’m so excited that I’m going with “I’ve got me . . . “). I ordered it right before the pre-order period ended, and it arrived a bit under a week later. And it’s as cool as all the many, many reviews of the Nexus 7 say it is; the Nexus 7 is an absolutely amazing tablet computer, doing way more stuff for $200 than any device I’ve seen.

Cheaper International Calls! AT&T Makes Real Business Change

When AT&T makes your long distance phone calls cheaper, you know there’s real business change happening. When AT&T makes international calls placed from your cell phone a lot cheaper, business change has EXPLODED.

And that’s exactly what’s happened. AT&T has released a SmartPhone app that gives you international phone calls for as little as four cents per minute.

This may not matter all that much to all that many people; sure, there are about a gazillion international phone calls placed every day, but I’d say with some confidence that most of the calls placed by most Americans are to other people in the USA. Nevertheless, AT&T was charging a tremendous amount of money for these calls, and now they’ve thrown that revenue away.

AT&T Asks FCC for Business Change, to Kill Your Phone Line

What if AT&T, Verizon, and the other traditional “phone companies” no longer had to provide phone service?

It’s a tough predicament.

CLECs (AT&T, Verizon, et.al.) have a bunch of rules they have to follow that were made at a time when they held a different position. And let’s be honest: holding them to a standard that took into account a position they no longer hold really isn’t fair.

On the other hand: there are a significant number of people who still use CLECs in the same way they used them once upon a time, and dinosaur references notwithstanding it really isn’t fair to just cut them off.

Local Number Portability When Your VoIP Provider Goes South

From July 18 at consumerist.com:

(http://consumerist.com/consumer/wlnp/wireless-number-portability-how-to-keep-your-number-228521.php#viewcomments)

Folks, a couple of thing to keep in mind:

1) SunRocket was not officially a phone company at all. Technically, this means they are not subject to LNP rules (in fact, check your customer agreement w/ them…it says clearly that they *may* allow you to take your number with you, but are not obligated to do so).

Think of this as it applies to eFax or all the free phone # services. The entities that provide those services AREN’T PHONE COMPANIES. As LNP is telecom-specific, “Your” #s belong to them, not to you.





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