Change Coming to Wireless World

摘要

The U.S. wireless industry is undergoing fundamental changes that in the next few years will take it in directions no one can guarantee now. Pushed in part by a convergence with the Internet world, the old world order is breaking down. Google's interest in bidding on spectrum in the FCC's 700 MHz auction, which starts Jan. 24, is being blamed for some of the seismic shift - perhaps'helping push Verizon Wireless to declare it will open its network to more phones and applications in 2008 And AT&T to insist that its network is already open.