According to IDG website's report, venture capitalist John Stanton said that in the first few years when the iPhone came out, Steve Jobs has been exploring in using non-licensed WiFi band to establish Apple's mobile networks, so that the iPhone customers can skip operators to use Apple's device directly. Although this approach was proved unworkable ultimately, but Stanton said Steve Jobs's vision is that he wanted to control the user's experience completely. Something about iPad: dvd to ipad converter.

According to Stanton, Steve Jobs gave up the idea in 2007, and the company decided to sign an agreement with the existing traditional operators, but Apple still controls the equipment on the carrier network strictly.

Stanton was an early entrepreneur on mobile phone technology, he has established a company called Western Wireless Corporation, later part of the company separated from it creating a new company called VoiceStream, VoiceStream was acquired by Deutsche Telekom in 2001, becoming the fourth largest U.S. carrier T-Mobile. Something you may concern about: convert avi to ipad. The remaining part of Western Wireless was purchased by Alltel in 2005, it seems that Jobs and Stanton's dialogue occured at this time.