The biggest wireless provider in the US with its nationwide CDMA network and 63 million plus subscribers yesterday jumped the FCC auction gun and announced that 'Any Apps, Any Device' will be welcome on its wireless network – a shrewd PR ploy that nevertheless knocked a few stones off the top of the US heavily fortified walled wireless garden.
Reminiscent of the excitement in the streets of Berlin when the Wall came down, this week's announcement by Verizon was THE US telecom news item for telecom wonks, bloggers, reporters and various propellerhead dweebs orbiting the industry.
Funny though how just last month, Verizon was the lone holdout trying to legally brick up an official FCC open network loophole that it today so generously wants to celebrate – in a September lawsuit Verizon vigorously assailed the FCC decision to open up one third of a 62MHz swath of the soon to be sold off 700MHz spectrum to devices and applications as "arbitrary, capricious, unsupported by substantial evidence and otherwise contrary to law," according to a Verizon statement at the time.
The lawsuit, filed in September in the U.S.
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