Google To Blow US Carrier Network Wide Open

The FT has a report from a conference where Google have announced plans that they need to change the mobile market place and make it more open if it was to succeed. The FT says:

All of these pieces add up to an attempt to breathe new life into the mobile internet business. “I’d say the fundamental issue is we don’t have enough innovation in the US market in particular in mobile,” said Sergey Brin, co-founder.

“It is really important to Google that there be lots of choices of devices, and networks be open,” added Mr Schmidt.

…Perhaps most worryingly for incumbent network operators is the way that Google has agitated hard for carriers to open up the airwaves to third-party devices and services, using the upcoming spectrum auction as its main weapon.

FT