Verizon Wireless, the country's second-biggest wireless-services provider, is offering a compromise with Internet giant Google Inc. in how phone-company networks get used.
Google and others have argued that a significant chunk of the radio spectrum being auctioned early next year by the Federal Communications Commission should go to a wireless operator that promises to open its network to all devices and software applications, including those that Internet companies want to offer. Such a business model would be novel in the U.S. cellphone industry, where carriers such as Verizon and AT&T Inc. more or less control distribution of phones and the ...
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