Columbia Law Professor Tim Wu: Opening the Airwaves

November 11th, 2007 | Category: Linux

On Nov. 5, Google unveiled what many in the phone commerce had faraway awaited. CEO Eric Schmidt explained how the search giant was ready to create new software for mobile phones that would shake up the telecom status quo. A Google-led “Open Handset Alliance” would supply consumers an alternative to the big cellular carriers and

give them new choices among mobile phones and the types of nifty services that run on them. Google’s brain trust was again trying to change the rules of the game. Behind the scenes, they owe a sizable debt to a man nearly unknown external the geeky confines of cyberlaw.

Original post by Spencer E. Ante

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