Spectrum of Greed

You can't get on these networks with that phone!

…Turns out his watch phone was the hang up.  He didn’t get clearance with the network Nazi’s in the US before flashing his wireless wrist piece.  There are two products at CES this year in the Nerdy phone / watch category.  One by LG, and one by a company called Neutrano.  Neither of these companies are talking about introducing their product in the US, because they haven’t been invited yet.  These kind of innovations could either succeed or die on their own merits in an open wireless market.  The closed system we have here in the US doesn’t allow for these things to come in without negotiating an invitation with one of the gatekeepers.  And of course that admission won’t be free, even if they are willing to entertain your product.  Does this increase the risk to an entrpreneur trying to market a new product?  Yup.  I know several companies that no longer exist - casualties of the gatekeepers indifference.  To them, it just doesn’t matter.