Verizon to Open Access to Apps and Devices Next Year
A day late and a dollar short
On the s/w side, isn't that what smartphones are for? show me a cdma symbian phone and i'll eat my words 🤣
see where this gets interesting?
not defending VZW or anything
beeferjay said:
but in the future, VZW will be using LTE, which will also be used by ATT.
Not necessarily. It was a Vodafone exec that reported Verizon Wireless' pending devotion to the LTE standard (which makes sense considering Vodafone's undying desire for Verizon to conform to the worldwide wireless standard). In a separate interview of Verizon execs, it was reported that all options (meaning LTE, UMB and WiMax) remained on the table.
and with the sprint/clearwire fall out, it seems WiMax has taken a back seat.
haha sorry. it sounded like the right thing to say at that time. you know it was funny.
Don't like closed CDMA devices? Go get an iphone 🤣
Kagehiru said:
When they went with CDMA, bringing a handset over to another carrier was not even on the far horizon.
you are forgetting about Europe 😉
From wikipedia:
"In 1982, the European Conference of Postal and Telecommunications Administrations (CEPT) created the Groupe Spécial Mobile (GSM) to develop a standard for a mobile telephone system that could be used across Europe.[5] In 1987, a memorandum of understanding was signed by 13 countries to develop a common cellular telephone system across Europe.[6][7]"
sounds to me like this focuses mainly on the infrastructure side, but nonetheless implies interoperability and 'open access' across Europe.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gsm »
"GSM has always grown and adapted to the changing needs of customers. The number of GSM subscribers has increased over the years, with around 160 million new customers added in 2002 alone. From 1997 to 2003, the number of GSM customers increased 10 times. GSM, which is continuously evolving at a rapid pace, provides several voice and data enabled services.
But just as GSM was being standardized, an even better s...
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