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Wednesday, May 30, 2007
Sprint is no friend of third-party navigation services
I hope this operator behavior won't get popular in Europe: Sprint: no GPS but our GPS.
GPS is inherently outside of operators' control, but A-GPS isn't, and neither is navigation services, provided operators disable access to GPS from third-party applications, or like in this case, threaten with a lawsuit.
GPS is inherently outside of operators' control, but A-GPS isn't, and neither is navigation services, provided operators disable access to GPS from third-party applications, or like in this case, threaten with a lawsuit.

