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Originally Posted by rhadin
Open only means that applications crated by someone other than the carrier can be certified to work over the carrier's network. As part of recent bandwidth sales and merger applications, to get FCC approval, carriers have had to agree to open their networks.
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There is a bit more to it than just that. Early last year 2008, an article came out in Business week on Verizion move to "open" their network. The motivation was completely competitive, other service providers had an open network and where luring away business because of it. Opening their network was a way to reclaim some of their business back.
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Originally Posted by Steve Jordan
Or maybe that Verizon simply knows Sony is working on a wireless device, and is trying to position themselves as the go-to wireless network for it. Verizon's announcement is a flag in the air, there for anyone to see, but I'd expect they are waving it particularly energetically in Sony's direction.
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Yah that could happen, but I'm guessing their thinking more along the lines of selling book over mobile phone (e.g. iPhone/Apple Store), vs the sprint/Amazon marriage. Their losing lots of business to the iPhone. Right now they're setting up a Blackberry "Storm" (and my what a nice phone it is) store which is a direct competitor to the apple store.
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