Now that Google has celebrated Yahoo's blown deal with Microsoft, they can go after Verizon Wireless.
This carrier's bid on the 700Mhz bandwidth has been the winning bid and Verizon will make full use of it. What they aren't respecting, according to Google, is the open access rule. Open access means that all applications and all devices, whether or not provided by the owner of the bandwidth, have to be able to function freely in any newly acquired bandwidth.
Verizon hasn't disclosed yet what they are preparing for that spectrum but if their policy is to limit access to if the hardware/software isn't purchased from them isn't exactly fair. I don't know what Google is pursuing this but clearly whatever Verizon has in mind, Google wants to be in it somehow. Is it the GPhone?
