A Hint of the Future in the US: Completely Open Carrier

In a move that we could only hope for in the US, European based wireless carrier KPN Mobile announced that it will become a completely open platform, opening access to its network to developers to deliver wireless services to KPNs 27 million subscribers, who will be able to choose any applications and services they wish to use on any phone. Wow, sounds too good to be true. Our jobs at Movaya would become drastically easier (and our bank accounts fatter) if any of the 4-5 major US based carriers took this attitude.

From a press release:
KPN will deploy Artilium’s ARTA Connected Mobile Services platform that will allow developers to build and design applications that take advantage of its convergence capabilities to tie into any network’s operations support and billing systems and wireless ecosystem. Importantly, developers can build on the Artilium platform’s new presence capabilities to create and deliver new context-aware services that unite mobile commerce, mobile advertising and social networking, among other possibilities.

The Artilium platform is built entirely on Microsoft’s .NET framework and uses Microsoft Visual Studio, something developers know well, which will allow developers applications to work on any wireless carriers’ networks who deploy Artilium’s platform in the future.

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