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Federal Court Shuts Down Pay As You Go Wireless

Posted by ScuttleMonkey on from the pay-as-you-go-out-of-business dept.

self assembled struc writes "BCGI has been found guilty of infringing on pay-as-you-go wireless patents owned by Freedom Wireless. This means that cellular providers who use BCGI pay-as-you-go billing systems must immediately stop selling new service. For the next 90 days, as they wind down their service, they will have to pay Freedom Wireless 2.5 cents per airtime minute used PER CUSTOMER. This heralds a farewell to Cingular's Go Phone and Sprint-Nextel's Boost services, both powered by BCGI."

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  1. Lets yell by gcnaddict · · Score: 0, Troll

    Im willing to bet this ruling was reached by either one or a panel of idiot judges with no life. I hate it when technon00bs run our government; we geeks end up paying dearly for it :'(

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  2. Dollars to doughnuts... by andreMA · · Score: -1, Troll
    when an eight-person jury found BCGI's services infringed on Freedom's patents...
    I bet the jury wasn't allowed to consider the validity of the patent.

    I further wager that the judge concerned was appointed/nominated by a Republican.

    1. Re:Dollars to doughnuts... by jcr · · Score: 1, Troll

      I further wager that the judge concerned was appointed/nominated by a Republican.

      I see that you subscribe to the popular fantasy that there's some practical difference between the wings of the Ruling Party.

      For the record, both Democrats and Republicans tax and tax, spend and spend, get us into wars, commit felonies, and engage in cronyism. They are interchangable.

      -jcr

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    2. Re:Dollars to doughnuts... by andreMA · · Score: 0, Troll
      I think you replied to the wrong comment? I never said Republicans were technoboobs; I implied that they were greedy, self-serving hypocrites interested only in sucking the cocks of their campaign contributors.

      Please don't suggest that I insulted their technical prowess.

  3. Re:So... by xerid · · Score: -1, Troll

    Sort of like the Patriot Act?

  4. Re:say it is not so. by Anonymous Coward · · Score: -1, Troll

    This has nothing to do with Microsoft! Get lost, loser.

  5. Re:America by NoGuffCheck · · Score: 1, Troll

    I have to agree. Ive never known any other country to even use terms like "Freedom" and "Free" (in reference to their society) anywhere near as much as in the US.. and dont get me started on "freedom fries"... makes me want to spew.

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  6. seems to be a bit off. by luther349 · · Score: 0, Troll

    it says nexttel-sprint is affected but nowhere does it say that. it does metion cingler and at@t and a few others but not sprint or nexttel. scared me for a minut. cingler sucks anyways and so does at@t.

  7. Re:No Pre-Paid!!!! by Anonymous Coward · · Score: -1, Troll

    Or my poor white meth junkie friends.

  8. Re:Easy patent reform: by Fulcrum+of+Evil · · Score: 0, Troll

    Thomas Edison the 15th in his basement lab does not.

    Thomas Edison the first, otoh, ran a corporation of his own. He didn't get all those patents himself.

    sure, a few basement inventors still might come up with a great concept.

    At which point, some corps may decide to violate it anyway and bury the guy in lawyers.

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