T-Mobile allows me to install third-party apps on my BlackBerry
Wait... is the Blackberry yours or T-Mobile's? Because if it's yours, then how is it that they allow you to install apps on it?
I promise you, there are real innovations that get quashed by providers, not the least of which is T-Mobile. Often because they know it will be successful and therefore drive up usage of their network. Usage that doesn't have a higher profit margin that straight data. They should be charging for the service they provide: data transfer. If they want to sell apps and services too, charge for those. Seems to me that a level playing field for services based on data networks is a fair trade for the public's radio spectrum used to create those networks.
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Wait... is the Blackberry yours or T-Mobile's? Because if it's yours, then how is it that they allow you to install apps on it?
I promise you, there are real innovations that get quashed by providers, not the least of which is T-Mobile. Often because they know it will be successful and therefore drive up usage of their network. Usage that doesn't have a higher profit margin that straight data. They should be charging for the service they provide: data transfer. If they want to sell apps and services too, charge for those. Seems to me that a level playing field for services based on data networks is a fair trade for the public's radio spectrum used to create those networks.