Verizon pledges open network
Thrax
🐌Austin, TX Icrontian
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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:
<blockquote>“provide customers the option to use, on its nationwide wireless network, wireless devices, software and applications not offered by the company.”</blockquote>
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.
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:
<blockquote>“provide customers the option to use, on its nationwide wireless network, wireless devices, software and applications not offered by the company.”</blockquote>
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.
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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.