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Why fine print might ground your high-flying 4G cellphone service
http://redtape.msnbc.msn.com/_news/2011/11/15/8805266-why-fine-print-might-ground-your-high-flying-4g-cellphone-service

(this is a snip from a lengthy article, rather interesting...bandwidth and spectrum issues )

"Mark Rasch is dying to get in on the super-fast 4G cellphone networks he keeps hearing so much about. Advertisements with streaming movies, live sports, even lightning bolts that help create stirring multimedia experiences on the go have been tempting him for more than a year.

An AT&T customer, he was thrilled last week when the firm released its first two "real" 4G LTE phones -- the HTC Vivid and Samsung Galaxy S II Skyrocket. A Washington, D.C.,-area resident, he's lucky to live in one of the handful of cities where the providers' highest-speed service is currently available, so he was ready to jump in with both feet.

Then, he read the contract.

It says this: "Data sessions may be conducted only for the following purposes: (i) Internet browsing; (ii) email; and (iii) intranet access." Nothing about lightning bolts, and according to Rasch, nothing that he can't already do with his old phone. He found the limitations troubling.

"If you buy these phones thinking that you can use them, any of the thousands of Android apps, and the LTE data network for a host of really cool things like making VOIP calls, using Skype, streaming audio or video, remotely accessing a home PC, accessing cloud services, or any of the thousands of things that such apps enable, think again," he said. "In effect, you are buying a fully enabled phone, crippled by AT&T’s Terms of Use.""