____/ Mark Kent on Wednesday 19 December 2007 14:13 : \____
> Roy Schestowitz <newsgroups@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> espoused:
>> Static on the Dream Phone
>>
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>>| Meanwhile, cracks are appearing in the control that cellular carriers have
>>| long held over their networks. Verizon announced last month that it will
>>| open its network to ?any application and any device? by the end of next
>>| year.
>>|
>>| [...]
>>|
>>| Cellular carriers need to embrace this insight. Winner-take-all profits can
>>| be achieved by opening up their networks and then harnessing community
>>| contributions (including the contributions of software developers) to
>>| improve ? or invent ? new services. Google is trying this with its new Open
>>| Handset Alliance, which combines an open-source phone platform with an
>>| Internet-style application development model.
>> `----
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>> http://www.nytimes.com/2007/12/15/opinion/15oreilly.html?_r=1&oref=slogin
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> It's unlikely that the mobile carriers will be able to make up in
> revenue from new services what they were getting from their walled
> gardens, but it's even less likely that they'll be able to retain their
> walled gardens in perpetuity...
Paul Allen has jumped onto the same bandwagon just now (it's in the news).
Things are changing fast. Last week there was also an article about
bittorrent-like (pooling connectivity a la OLPC) for phones. Very disruptive.
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