(Reuters) - New York State attorney general is investigating why American cellphone carriers are yet to support antitheft software on Samsung smartphones, raising questions about possible coordination among the biggest carriers, the New York Times reported. New York Attorney General Eric Schneiderman sent letters to top executives of AT&T Inc, Verizon Wireless, Sprint, T-Mobile US Inc and U.S. Cellular, seeking information about their decision to prevent Samsung from featuring a "kill switch" in carrier-approved smartphones, the newspaper said. "If carriers are colluding to prevent theft-deterrent features from being pre-installed on devices as means to sell more insurance products, they are doing so at the expense of public safety and putting their customers in danger," Schneiderman said in a statement, the New York Times reported. (http://r.reuters.com/xux35v) Schneiderman's office and the five carriers could not be reached for comment by Reuters outside of regular U.S. business hours.



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