Roy Schestowitz <newsgroups@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> espoused:
> ____/ Mark Kent on Wednesday 19 December 2007 14:13 : \____
>
>> Roy Schestowitz <newsgroups@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> espoused:
>>> Static on the Dream Phone
>>>
>>> ,----[ Quote ]
>>>| 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.
>>> `----
>>>
>>> http://www.nytimes.com/2007/12/15/opinion/15oreilly.html?_r=1&oref=slogin
>>>
>>
>> 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.
>
It'll be possible to pool capacity for data services, but for real-time
streaming, it won't work.
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