While I have no faith in the promises of giants doing the purchasing, at least now you don't need to jailbreak an iPhone/iPad to get it on t-mobile.

Oh the FCC wants to deregulate DSL. Considering my experience over the last few weeks of trying to find a provider that offers a static IP address, it doesn't even matter if they even change the rules.

Keep in mind that I've been a DSL customer since 2001 with Verizon providing the copper, and using my university as the ISP (and who was kind enough to provide a static IP). Things for the most part were good with the exception of the previous year, and running into poor line speed due to living the maximal distance from the CO, and also experiencing the DSLAM fingerpointing. Recently, however, I moved to a new place where the cable option was an internal provider whose idea of static IP was opening up ports on their NAT box, and since this was internal competition is out of the question. Then there's DSL. I originally tried to go the speakeasy route to find out that my line isn't available for leasing to them. The end result is going in with a business DSL service (and paying over $120 / mo.) just for a single static IP address and a one year lock!

And for those naysayers who are wondering why I just don't go back to the unviersity, the reason being that I also do some consulting that doesn't constitue university business, and is somewhat frowned upon. Also, there's their IP (intellectual property) agreement such that anything developed using university resources (including the ISP) belongs to them.