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Carterfone - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
The Carterfone is a device invented by Thomas Carter. It manually connects a two-way mobile radio system to the public switched telephone network (PSTN), making it a direct ...
Interconnection - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
This further changed in FCC 's Carterfone decision in 1968, which required the Bell System companies to permit interconnection by radio-telephone operators.
What’s New with Wu » Blog Archive » Forbes Column on Wireless ...
Applying the Carterfone rule to the next spectrum auction would ensure that our key fob designer need only look up standard technical specifications and then build and sell his ...
Before the FEDERAL COMMUNICATIONS COMMISSION WASHINGTON, D.C. 20554
46 Moreover, with respect to the Carterfone principle, the Commission has acknowledged wireless consumers' existing Carterfone right to attach CPE of their choice when it noted that ...
Wireless Carterfone | The New America Foundation
Wireless carriers in the United States operate as regulated common carriers when providing basic telecommunications services, such as voice telephone service, text messaging and ...
FAIR Blog » Carterfone
Senator John Kerry's post to the SaveTheInternet.com blog looks at the fact that "nine of the most popular 10 phones are locked in a deal with one of these big wireless carriers ...
Groups Urge FCC to Open Wireless Networks : NPR
1959: Thomas Carter's Texas-based company releases the Carterfone, which couples callers using wireless radio and wired phone networks. AT&T and other companies warn customers not ...
Carterfone (Fred R. Goldstein; John Higdon)
From: "Fred R. Goldstein" Subject: Re: Historical Query: Carterfone Date: 30 Mar 90 21:15:27 GMT Organization: Digital Equipment Corp., Littleton MA ...
Wireless Net Neutrality: Cellular Carterfone and Consumer Choice in ...
Wireless carriers aggressively control product design and innovation in the equipment and application markets, to the detriment of consumers. In the wired world, their policies ...
Carterfone Decision - Telecom Definition
In the United States, the Federal Communications Commission (FCC) decision (1968) that allowed the interconnection of foreign (i.e., provided by an entity other than the telco ...
40 years later, some wonder if Carterfone is still relevant - Ars ...
40 years has passed since the FCC issued its Carterfone "open device" Order. But economists and legal scholars disagree about the famous rules' significance and future.
CARTERFONE : MY STORY Nicholas Johnson†
677 CARTERFONE : MY STORY Nicholas Johnson † Abstract Thomas Carter invented the "Carterfone"-an acoustic coupling device that enabled the connection of a telephone handset to a ...
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The Carterfone is a device invented by Thomas Carter. It manually connects a two-way mobile radio system to the public switched telephone network (PSTN), making it a direct predecessor to today's autopatch.

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Statement Of FCC Commissioner Michael J. Copps On The 700 MHz Service ...
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I commend the Chairman’s leadership on the Carterfone issue. Six months ago, Carterfone was a term of largely historical interest—an important and venerable decision, to be sure, but hardly on the tips of most policymakers’ tongues. Even fo...
WHAT'S NEXT -- INFO TECH
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In February, Tim Wu published a paper proposing that the FCC apply the industry's "Carterfone" rules to wireless. For decades, AT&T had prohibited consumers from attaching anything but its own phones to its network. In 1968, AT&T tried to b...
FCC Chair to Oppose Skype Open-Network Petition
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At the center of Skype's petition are open-platform "Carterfone" requirements, named after a precedent-setting decision by the FCC in 1968, which forced the Bell telephone monopoly to open up and allow outside devices to run on formerly clo...
Kevin Martin's Latest Gift To Telcos: Dismissing Skype Petition
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A little over a year ago, Skype filed a petition with the FCC asking to extend the Carterfone decision to mobile networks. The Carterfone ruling was what allowed people the opportunity to connect non-AT&T telephones to the phone network, an...
Technology Voters' Guide: John Edwards
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I will also bring the Carterfone interoperability rule to wireless so that Americans can connect any device or applications to their wireless service, just as they can to their landline phone service. Telecommunications companies such as AT...
In Letter, Skype Hits Wireless Industry
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FCC chairmen Kevin Martin sounded a skepitcal note in April about Skype’s proposal to apply “Carterfone” rules to the wireless network — rules that would allow any device or application to run on the network, provided it did not damage it ....
ITunes Update Makes Some Legit Phones 'iBricks'
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The basis of the lawsuit will be Apple's willful intent to brick phones that have been *legally* unlocked versus the "Carterfone" decision as well as the government's blessing last year to consumers to unlock their phones. It's going to get...
Verizon's hubris
Los Angeles Times
Twelve years later, in the Carterfone case, the FCC ruled that AT&T could not bar customers from connecting the devices of their choice to the network. These decisions helped fuel a vibrant and inventive market not just for phones but for a...