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If Carrier MDM policy can override Configurator/Enterprise MDM policy, then corporate security admins will likely be unhappy about their lack of control over enterprise device networking.

Has the industry forgotten the pre-iPhone disaster of telco-controlled devices? https://www.quora.com/Why-was-the-iPhone-initially-exclusive...

> The landscape of the cell phone market was very different pre-2007. Most notably, the carriers had complete control over what phones were allowed on their network. A carrier could nix a feature that had been in R&D for years and suddenly you couldn’t sell your new phone with this amazing feature. They were especially protective of data and overloading their networks, which led to browsers on phones being stripped down and limited. The whole “full web” was not a technical impossibility, it was just that carriers wouldn’t allow phones on the network that had a full browser.

https://archive.is/4ZCH5

> Apple bucked the rules of the cellphone industry by wresting control away from the normally powerful wireless carriers ... Mr. Jobs once referred to telecom operators as "orifices" that other companies, including phone makers, must go through to reach consumers.



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