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Verizon pledges open network

Verizon pledges open network

EAAAAAARTHQUAAAAAAAAAAAAKE

Tectonic shifts in the US mobile are afoot, friends. By the end of 2008, Verizon Wireless (Notoriously one of the most absurdly-autocratic carriers) pledges the following:

“provide customers the option to use, on its nationwide wireless network, wireless devices, software and applications not offered by the company.”

While this could be nothing more than a paper-promise, similar to the iPhone SDK, it could also spell an enormous paradigm shift in US cellular space.

Comments

  1. mas0n
    mas0n Hell hath frozen over...
  2. primesuspect
    primesuspect WHAT? VERIZON? I can't believe it, TBH.
  3. mas0n
    mas0n I am willing to bet that AT&T will be last...

    We are years behind; it's quite sad really. I think the only reason this is finally happening in the US is because the 700MHz spectrum is going up for grabs.
  4. Kwitko
    Kwitko "Option to use" is a euphemism for "We're going to charge you a fortune for usage rights."

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