How to Bypass Carriers Apple-Style

It could sell competitive roaming deals to its customers. International roaming is horribly expensive for telephony and even more so for data. If Apple would connect with these networks directly, the networks wouldn’t know whether or not the customer was from France, the UK, or Zimbabwe. All it would see is an Apple IMSI. The first six digits would direct the device to Apple, which could then offer its customer a data roaming deal at prices as low as local rates. Customers could buy data roaming for an hour, six hours, a day or a year and operators could compete for their patronage. Apple would guarantee the payments and collect these through iTunes. It would pay the carrier after the customer has made use of the service.

How to Bypass Carriers Apple-Style

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Comment on How to Bypass Carriers Apple-Style by Tim

If this happens only with Apple devices, it won't make a difference since Apple products are used by only a small number of people

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Comment on How to Bypass Carriers Apple-Style by Otto

This is all nice and all, but what would be the incentive for any operator in the world to allow this? Just having iPhone to sell means nothing if you can not sell minutes and data as well. On the other hand, consumer would be in perpetual roaming and there is no way that roaming prices would be lower than non-roaming prices. Also, if I'm not mistaken, transfer wifi-3g is already possible on T-Mobile network in US (for select phones or planned for "near" future in other cases).

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