Verizon and AT&T Not In On Google’s Open Source Phone

clipped from gizmodo.com Sprint and T-Mobile are big companies but they don’t have the momentum or subscribers that Verizon Wireless and AT&T do. The opening volley of official announcements from Google and the Open Handset Alliance bring good news for people sick of the carrier choke hold. Of course, it’s easy to spot who gets an Android device first: T-Mobile and Sprint.

When Google announced the Open Handset Alliance, Sprint and T-Mobile jumped on board but Verizon and AT&T didn’t.Verizon said it “shares the goal of more open mobile application development,” and that this competitive move on Google’s part shows that innovation comes without the need for “legislation nor regulation.”

The robber baron Verizon is praising the radical free market and deploring regulation because they want to party like it’s 1929.

The lady doth protest too much, methinks.

Verizon doesn’t want to give up the tightly gripped vice they hold on their locked handsets. They thrive on proprietary business models. Open source anything is Kryptonite to them.