Comments on: Google to Verizon: Don't shirk open access responsibilities

Google files a petition with the FCC asking the agency to force Verizon Wireless to promise it will follow open access rules for the licenses it won in 700MHz spectrum auction.

[someguy999]

gaminig the FCC

Not that I'm against the requirements for openness, but I really hope that the investigation continues on google's sole intentions being to raise the cost to a point where the openness requirements kicked in. Clearly offering exactly the amount for that but not a dollar more was intended to game the system for one sole purpose.

[ewsachse]

Typo?

"We want Google [sic] to acknowledge their responsibility to comply with the C-Block license conditions," said Richard Whitt, the Washington telecom and media counsel for Google who signed the petition.

Should that line say "We want Verizon...."

[Maggie Reardon]

Typo has been fixed.

Thanks, the typo has been fixed.

[jacomo]

Watch how Verizon Wireless handles this

Watch how they get all the main players to register and certify their customer access devices (CAD)on their network and then implementing the clause that this Openess only applies to all new applicants requesting access and not approved VW devices. In short going back to their walled garden Access approach with the majority of CAD's.
The FCC needs to make sure this applies to all CAD's approved for access and those applying new.

Jim (aka Jacomo)