11:15AM Matt Buchanan | Right now to enter the American wireless market, you pretty much have to go through of the Big Four wireless providers, who, as Columbia professor Tim Wu puts it, “tend to approve only established partners whose devices fit their business plans, which is why we have yet to see all those wireless devices that were supposed to be in our future.”
His solution? Mandate that future owners of chunks of the 700Mhz spectrum being auctioned off when analog TV goes
kaput in 2009 make their networks neutral, allowing any “safe” device to attach to them, kind of like landlines.
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