Verizon Wireless Opens Network To Other PhonesVerizon Wireless Tuesday said it will offer customers a broader choice in devices as it plans next year to open its network to mobile phones and other hardware not sold by the carrier. Customers will be able to use any software or application on any approved device on its nationwide wireless network by the end of 2008, the Basking Ridge, N.J.-based service provider said in a statement. It's an approach that could help stimulate tremendous revenue opportunities for solution providers working with technologies such as unified communications and fixed-mobile convergence (FMC), said Jeff Hiebert, CEO of ROI Networks, a solution provider in San Juan Capistrano, Calif. "This blurring of the line between land-based and wireless networks, SIP interoperability and FMC is white-hot. Asia and Europe are way ahead of the U.S. in delivering a workable solution, so for Verizon to make that kind of bold statement, that's huge," Hiebert said. "We're going to be reselling hardware and software that leverages the capabilities of these networks," he added View: The full story @ CRN Read full story...
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