Tuesday, December 4, 2007

Factors Motivating Verizon to become an open-access carrier, http://www.businessweek.com/technology/content/dec2007/tc2007123_429930.htm?campaign_id=rss_topStories

"Verizon Embraces Google's Android-How Verizon Wireless learned to stop worrying and love open access. Step one: Realizing it's a way to add low-cost"
Some of the factors motivating Verizon to become an open-access [low cost] carrier include:
  • Off-load customer support to the handset producers
  • Eliminate costly device subsidies
  • Augment their perceived product line up with a whole new host of open-access devices. Order of magnitude difference (Verizon currently supports approximately 100 devices).

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