# Good News To Verizon Subscribers or Interested

**URL:** <https://forums.speedlife.net/t/good-news-to-verizon-subscribers-or-interested/39346>\
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**Created:** [November 27, 2007, 11:02am UTC](https://forums.speedlife.net/t/good-news-to-verizon-subscribers-or-interested/39346 "2007-11-27T11:02:08Z")\
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**Author:** ![RuBiCaNT](https://yyz2.discourse-cdn.com/flex034/user_avatar/forums.speedlife.net/rubicant/32/7622_2.png) [@RuBiCaNT](https://forums.speedlife.net/u/RuBiCaNT)\
**Post date:** [November 27, 2007, 11:02am UTC](https://forums.speedlife.net/t/good-news-to-verizon-subscribers-or-interested/39346/1 "2007-11-27T11:02:08Z")

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> By the end of 2008, Verizon Wireless will open their network to _any_ device which meets a “minimum technical standard.” What that standard is, exactly, VZW isn’t saying yet – that will come in “early 2008.” So any device (including applications) tested and certified in VZW’s new $20 Million test lab is fair game for use on their wireless network. In other words, Verizon becomes the data pipe, and nothing more for these new “bring-your-own” customers. It’s too early to say if this is a watershed moment or not. Verizon certainly thinks so with Lowell McAdam, Verizon Wireless president and chief executive officer, calling it, “a transformation point in the 20-year history of mass market wireless devices.” As usual, the devil (certification fees, turnaround times for testing, those magical minimum technical standards, etc.) might be in the details.

[http://money.cnn.com/news/newsfeeds/articles/prnewswire/NYTU03927112007-1.htm](http://money.cnn.com/news/newsfeeds/articles/prnewswire/NYTU03927112007-1.htm)

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**Author:** ![tpgsr](https://yyz2.discourse-cdn.com/flex034/user_avatar/forums.speedlife.net/tpgsr/32/7374_2.png) [@tpgsr](https://forums.speedlife.net/u/tpgsr)\
**Post date:** [November 27, 2007, 11:02am UTC](https://forums.speedlife.net/t/good-news-to-verizon-subscribers-or-interested/39346/2 "2007-11-27T11:02:38Z")

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repost

[http://nyspeed.com/forums/showthread.php?t=41147](http://nyspeed.com/forums/showthread.php?t=41147)

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**Author:** ![RuBiCaNT](https://yyz2.discourse-cdn.com/flex034/user_avatar/forums.speedlife.net/rubicant/32/7622_2.png) [@RuBiCaNT](https://forums.speedlife.net/u/RuBiCaNT)\
**Post date:** [November 27, 2007, 11:04am UTC](https://forums.speedlife.net/t/good-news-to-verizon-subscribers-or-interested/39346/3 "2007-11-27T11:04:06Z")

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damn Jeff!!