これが本当にヴェライゾン？　ワイヤレス・ネットワークのオープン化を宣言して、アンドロイドやiPhoneへの返答か - 考えたヒント

Is this the Verizon Wireless we know: The control-freak carrier that habitually makes phone manufacturers disable features before it will sell their products?

これがわたしたちの知っているヴェライゾン・ワイヤレスだろうか。常習的に電話機の製造業者に製品発売前に機能を削除させるように命令してきた管理狂ともいえるキャリア？

The whole move seems completely out of character.

このすべての動向は完全に会社の個性から外れたものに見える。

During the teleconference, Verizon Wireless executives also said that any phone running Google's Android software would be welcome under this system, as long as it runs on the CDMA standard Verizon and Sprint use.

通信カンファレンスの場で、ヴェライゾン・ワイヤレスの経営陣はグーグルのアンドロイド・ソフトウェアで動作するすべての携帯電話はこのシステムでは歓迎される、ただしヴェライゾンとスプリントが使うCDMA基準の上で動作するかぎりにおいて。

Mobile Industry Shifting into Internet Gear - eWeek.com (November 28, 2007)

Verizon Wireless' open network proposal is the latest example of a rapidly changing market.

ヴェライゾン・ワイヤレスのネットワークのオープン化の提案は急速に変化する市場の最新の好例だ。

"This is a shot across the bow at Google, who is pushing network neutrality big time," said analyst Jack Gold, with J. Gold Associates. "Verizon wants to say it is neutral with respect to devices and this proves it, and also to the FCC and Congress, who might be considering new rules. … So this is also about PR and positioning against Google, and by the way, against Apple as well, with its sealed-in-concrete closed ecosystem."

Verizon to Open Cell Network to Others' Phones - WSJ.com (November 28, 2007 By AMOL SHARMA and DIONNE SEARCEY)

The change, which will take effect by the middle of next year, is a big shift for Verizon, the nation's No. 2 carrier by subscribers, and it moves the U.S. wireless industry a step closer to the model in much of the rest of the world, where consumers can generally purchase devices independent of carriers and then plug them into their operator of choice.

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英語の記事、また錚々たる記者たちの熱、今度はアンドロイドを過熱させるか

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