iPhone jailbreaking (and all cell phone unlocking) made legal [telecom]

The FCC has decided to allow (with some restrictions - see whole article) the Smartphones to be legally "jailbroken" - unlocking of a Smartphone to be operated on another carriers system and in the case of the Apple iPhone, be able to run apps (applications) which Apple has not approved.

The complete article is found at:

Also note in the article some additional "digital rights" changes which are almost tantamount (according to the article) to allowing the individual purchaser of a DVD to "legally" make a copy of it - the actual permission was granted to Professors, students and documentary filmmakers for non-commercial purposes to break the copy-protection measures on DVD's. But isn't everyone a "student" of the art of film viewing?

John Stahl Aljon Enterprises Data/Telephony Consultant

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