Google Reveals Wireless Vision - Open Networks
Saturday, September 27th, 2008
Google Reveals Wireless Vision - Open Networks
“Google’s vision of tomorrow’s wireless network is in stark contrast to how wireless operators do business today, setting the two sides on a possible collision course. Earlier this week, the search giant filed a patent application with the U.S. Patent Office describing its vision of an open wireless network where smartphones aren’t tied to any single cell phone network. In Google’s open wireless world, phones and other wireless devices would search for the strongest, fastest connection at the most competitive price. Essentially, wireless operators’ networks would be reduced to ‘dumb pipes.”
This is a comment on slashdot, not an official announcement but it smells like it’s what’s coming and if they can pull it off it will change the entire playing field.
Sounds good to me - about time the piracy of limited connectivity and limited choice is blasted apart.
Roll on decent mobile web speeds where the networks will invest to give you a better connection and speed, so your phone uses them more!
Jon, not having a cell phone but hoping that future computers are able to use cellular networks, this sounds great to me. No doubt I’ll have a cell phone at some point but I think this is useful beyond handheld devices.