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Sunday, May 13, 2007
When an operator shows its true nature
Sprint unhappy about Mobile GMaps usage on its phones
This is one of those notes that is both funny and tragic at the same time.
Sprint has come up with the creatively stupid idea of accusing the provider of Mobile GMaps for taking away revenue from Sprint, as it uses GPS, not considering all the traffic it generates when downloading maps. Mobile GMaps is just the start of a boom of GPS-based phone applications and services. If Sprint thinks it can stop that they are pretty naive. Accusing a provider of a free tool is even more so.
'But Sprint doesn't like this and is threatening legal action against the maker of Mobile GMaps unless the company removes or obfuscates the GPS tracking functionality'
I hope all goes well, Cristian.
I wish there was something called business ethics also within telecom.
This is one of those notes that is both funny and tragic at the same time.
Sprint has come up with the creatively stupid idea of accusing the provider of Mobile GMaps for taking away revenue from Sprint, as it uses GPS, not considering all the traffic it generates when downloading maps. Mobile GMaps is just the start of a boom of GPS-based phone applications and services. If Sprint thinks it can stop that they are pretty naive. Accusing a provider of a free tool is even more so.
'But Sprint doesn't like this and is threatening legal action against the maker of Mobile GMaps unless the company removes or obfuscates the GPS tracking functionality'
I hope all goes well, Cristian.
I wish there was something called business ethics also within telecom.
