iPhone Termination Fee Making Lawmakers Upset iPhone终止费使议员们打破
Apple’s iPhone has enjoyed favorable reviews since its recent debut, but it got some criticism on Capitol Hill in Washington this week.苹果的iPhone有着良好的评语，因为它最近推出，但它有一些批评美国国会本星期在华盛顿。
The phones, which这两款手机，其中 cost between $500 and $600售价介于500美元和600美元 —are usable only on AT&T Inc.’s wireless network and will remain that way until 2012. ，不仅是实用的AT ＆ T公司的无线网络，并将继续这样，直到2012年。 Even though the phones become expensive paperweights if customers quit AT&T’s wireless plan, the company will still charge a $175 early termination fee, said即使手机成为昂贵的纸如果用户退出AT ＆ T无线计划，该公司仍将收取175美元提前终止费，说 Rep. Edward J. Markey, D-Mass.众议员爱德华马尔基，麻州 , chairman of a House subcommittee on telecommunications and the Internet.主席，众议院小组委员会的电信和互联网。
Markey described the phone as a “Hotel California service.马尔凯描述了电话也可作为一个“加州旅馆服务。 You can check out any time you like, but you can never leave—you’re stuck with your iPhone and you can’t take it anywhere.”您可以查看任何时候你喜欢，但你不能离开， you're坚持与您的iPhone和你可以不采取它任何地方。 “
Timothy Wu, a law professor at Columbia University and commentator on technology issues, described the cell phone industry as “spectrum-based oligopoly” where customers have given up their property rights.霍震霆吴一项法律，哥伦比亚大学教授和评论家的技术问题，介绍了手机行业的“频谱为基础的寡头垄断” ，即客户已经放弃了他们的财产权。
“Imagine buying a television that stopped working if you decided to switch to satellite,” Wu said. “想象一下，买了电视，停止工作，如果你决定切换到卫星， ”吴仪说。 “Or a toaster that died if you switched from Potomac Power to ConEd.” “或死亡的电烤箱，如果你转自波托马克锥形的权力。 ”
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