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LETTER TO THE EDITOR: You can choose your home page (updated)

THE ORIGINAL PURPOSE of wireless walled garden (as referenced in Tuesday morning’s story “Closed wireless networks face broadcasters’ wrath”) was to control the experience because a lack of common interfaces made the internet experience a mess. While carriers looked at content as an opportunity, it generally is more of a headache to try to manage. We are moving rapidly to the same Internet experience on mobile as wireline. That means an open platform. However we reserve the right to have our own portal, and like the wireline world you can choose your home pages.Pelmorex suggested that its content could not be...