Because carriers are arcane companies that have a monopoly on a swath of infrastructure and have little care or perspective on what products and consumer experience amounts to.
They buy and install equipment and sell out the voice/data.
They actively oppose, thwart any kind of thoughtful innovation, competition etc. on anything relating to their networks, because they believe they 'own' the network and therefore 'own' everything going on on top of it.
Remember the 10-cent 'WAP' pages? Tiny, crappy, useless little mobile web pages? And they wanted 10-cents each?
Carriers would originally not sell BlackBerry service. They thought it was stupid to have 'email' on their networks. BlackBerry had to buy data and then sell to the C-suite.
Then, BlackBerry literally became the reason that people wanted to buy data. The carriers then said - you can't buy network and resell it, you must sell your products through us.
Imagine if some private companies controlled all of the roads. Any and business wanting to put a car on the road had to pay a toll, and the owners could decide which kinds of cars, when, and for what reason and intervene. They tried to provide the ambulance and transport for everyone and keep messing it up.
It's also an artefact of human organization, even a fairly enlightened community/government body would have difficulty setting clear and appropriate guidance.
The issue becomes problematic when there is a control of a scarce resource.
In truth, it's absurd that people should be able to easily fake 'from' numbers, we should have fixed that a decade ago.
They buy and install equipment and sell out the voice/data.
They actively oppose, thwart any kind of thoughtful innovation, competition etc. on anything relating to their networks, because they believe they 'own' the network and therefore 'own' everything going on on top of it.
Remember the 10-cent 'WAP' pages? Tiny, crappy, useless little mobile web pages? And they wanted 10-cents each?
Carriers would originally not sell BlackBerry service. They thought it was stupid to have 'email' on their networks. BlackBerry had to buy data and then sell to the C-suite.
Then, BlackBerry literally became the reason that people wanted to buy data. The carriers then said - you can't buy network and resell it, you must sell your products through us.
Imagine if some private companies controlled all of the roads. Any and business wanting to put a car on the road had to pay a toll, and the owners could decide which kinds of cars, when, and for what reason and intervene. They tried to provide the ambulance and transport for everyone and keep messing it up.
It's also an artefact of human organization, even a fairly enlightened community/government body would have difficulty setting clear and appropriate guidance.
The issue becomes problematic when there is a control of a scarce resource.
In truth, it's absurd that people should be able to easily fake 'from' numbers, we should have fixed that a decade ago.