But wireless companies who oppose open networks say the change could disrupt service and devalue the spectrum.
Open networks can and should co-exist with others blocked and managed and fiddled with in every way imaginable.
The snag was that bureaucrats insisted on keeping this a closed system, even after it became clear to everyone else that the future belonged to open networks like the internet.
But simpler, more open networks also permit self-segregation.
While much networked business is conducted over private networks (or encrypted tunnels through public networks), the Internet (including the Web), open WiFi networks and various mobile networks are also commonly used to connect members of business networks.
Advocates say that requiring winning bidders to open their networks to all devices would lead to an explosion of innovation.
What looms there is the outsized success of open social networks in ramping up the growth of their user base.
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"Open mobile networks threaten Microsoft and every other established player, " notes Ho.
To prove the tech, the company combined all the available open WiFi networks in a neighborhood along with a tethered Verizon mobile phone, and were able to create an impressive 85Mbs connection, as the video below the break shows.
Zoning laws would be rewritten so that, over time, large parcels of abandoned land would be converted into landscaped open space networks that would capture and clean storm water, improve air quality, and clean contaminated soil as well as provide new recreational opportunities like bike paths and hiking trails and create habitats for local wildlife and migrating birds.
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Each will feature "open" architecture networks to create long-term value and growth for the Gig.
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Broadband analyst Craig Settles urged the government to require open access to networks built on federal property.
Meanwhile, efforts to crack open the cable networks had met with mixed success.
In open-source networks, participants become co-owners with the freedom to create and iterate to add value in new contexts.
Forcing network owners to open up their networks means they have to compete with anyone who cares to offer competing content and services.
Having all the networks open at once allows me to quickly paste the destination URL while I customize each post appropriate for the network (more on this in a minute).
They found rampant phony Wi-Fi hot spots created by phishers and, at several large airports, plenty of open or insecure networks run by critical operations such as baggage handling and ticketing.
The challenges could seem overwhelming, said Cousteau, but Malec-McKenna added that there are a great number of global networks open to people to take action and make even the smallest changes to their lifestyle.
Last week, Kennard rejected a recommendation from the FCC's Local and State Government Advisory Committee to begin an inquiry into complaints about cable companies with an eye towards forcing them to open up their networks.
He is a member of the Wireless Founders Coalition, which, along with Google and several consumer rights organizations, is asking the FCC to require winning bidders in an upcoming auction of wireless spectrum to open up their networks to all devices.
He started Skyrider, oddly enough, to create technology to disrupt the open-source P2P networks.
AOL. Its pleas for open access to these networks may carry rather more weight with federal regulators.
Much of the value created by firms is in the form of intangibles such as knowledge networks and open business models.
If the networks do open their wallets in a checkbook journalism move, time will tell if it brings with it public backlash.
Google has maintained in its defense against the class action that it did nothing illegal by gathering data from open Wi-Fi networks.
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Solving many of these issues will be about dollars and cents, as network affiliates are becoming less open to giving the networks any more territory.
Google later admitted its systems had captured communications -- including possibly passwords and e-mails -- from people using open Wi-Fi networks as the cars drove past.
The rise of participatory culture in social media, Web 2.0, open source, mobile networks, is teaching us that the whole is greater than the sum of its parts.
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It also asked Libyan authorities to lift the ban imposed on the media, to open communications and telephone networks and to ensure the delivery of emergency medical aid to the wounded.
On November 1st an alliance including Google, the most popular web-search engine, and several other firms announced a plan to make social networks as open as Netscape's browser made the web.
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