Last year after I got Iron Wil online and started really investing time into it, I wrote an article called Curse of the Mobile Providers. In this article, I complained about the current state of mobile service. I talked about the changes coming and that one day mobile phones/devices would be much more like computers on the internet today.
Well, Wired just backed up my thoughts with an in depth article that talks about the changes the iPhone has brought to the wireless world. They also covered the open wireless standards that Verizon (and AT&T) announced late last year [I covered this in Open Wireless Networks!]. With mobile phone makers scrambling to make must have devices like the iPhone, Wireless providers opening up their networks, the open 700Mhz bandwidth [Google unwires the US?], and Google releasing Android for mobile phones [Google Phone?]; My prediction should come true sooner than I expected!
I am really excited about this not because I wrote and have spent time thinking about it, but because it could happen sooner then the 3 to 5 years I suggested!
I salivate at the possibility of taking my mobile phone to whatever carrier I want. Man that just ROCKS!!!
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Notes:
The Untold Story: How the iPhone Blew Up the Wireless Industry, Wired. (Specifically see the 4th page, the last 3 paragraphs are the focal point of the coming changes.)
