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Gig 601XL Builder wrDOTgiaconaATsuddenlink.net wrote:

Assuming AT&T doesn't sell off its wireless division AGAIN and AT&T
doesn't jump fully into its announced parterships with carriers going
the GPS route and someone is willing to make phones that only work
with non-GPS carriers which are a fraction of the US market now.

I wouldn't put money on that bet.

None GPS phones will go away because of market forces, not regulation,
just like BetaMax, floppy drives (8, 5, or 3 inch, take your pick),
record players, 8 track and eventually ordinary photographic film
as the GPS phones will be more generally usefull.

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Why would market forces drive out the Non-GPS phones? Most people don't use
the GPS chip in the phone. The requirement for location is there because the
feds said it needed to be there and most people who do care just want 911 to
know where they are. They could care less how 911 knows where they are.

Now, if AT&T cells the wireless division all bets are off because the people
they sell it to are using the GPS system. But, I don't see that happening.
AT&T is just about back where they were in the 70s with just enough
competition to forestall another federal break-up. For more info please this
video.

http://video.google.com/videoplay?do...85759717366066