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During an interview with BusinessWeek, Verizon Wireless CEO Lowell McAdam said that the carrier will support Google's recently announced open platform: Android. "We're planning on using Android," he said. "Android is an enabler of what we do."
McAdam said he led the charge toward the carrier's recent open access announcement and the lead up involved meetings with the chairman of the FCC and late-night bull sessions with the top executives at parent company Verizon Communications.
So why wasn't Verizon Wireless a charter member of Google's Open Handset Alliance? McAdam said "to get into that press release really didn't do anything. We needed to understand the details of that operating system." Once Verizon Wireless engineers took a look at the details the carrier not only decided that it would support the platform but that it would open its own network too.
"Android really facilitated this move," McAdam said of the carrier's "Any Apps, Any Device" announcement.
For more on Verizon Wireless' decision to support Google's Android:
- read this article from BusinessWeek
- check out our Google Android Emulator slideshow
Comments
Posted by Anonymous | December 4, 2007 - 6:02pm
The U.S. is half GSM (Cingular, T-Mobile), half CDMA (Verizon, Sprint).
Android targets GSM. Once cool devices come out with Android, all young people will move with them to GSM.
Verizon is trying to escape forward and steer the Android movement to support CDMA at any cost.
It's basic survival, nothing more. If they didn't do "any apps, any device" and support Android, they would be dead in 5 years. Now they have a hope...
Posted by Anonymous | April 27, 2009 - 11:40pm
Very interesting idea but I do not believe that is an informed comment.
Posted by Anonymous | April 29, 2009 - 8:01pm
Verizon Wireless has committed to LTE by 2010 and eventually dropping CDMA altogether. Some of these comments make no sense.
Posted by Anonymous | April 30, 2009 - 8:06am
Thanks for the LTE comment . . . and no thanks to the ignorants and their idiotic rants. If you have nothing worthwhile to contribute, then please don't post garbage.
Posted by Anonymous | May 5, 2009 - 10:48am
why does whether or not they support gay people have anything to do with their service? Furthermore, why should a MNO support one group over another? Should they be obligated to support Latinos, children, old white businessmen, or any other group? No.
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