Late last year, Verizon boldly announced it would allow subscribers to use equipment from third parties as long as minimum technical standards for operating safely on Verizon’s network; also allowed are third-party applications to run on those handsets.
The first annual Verizon developer conference is held in New York and will run March 19-20 with a focus on the requirements for devices that would run on the Verizon network
“This initial conference is for developers of devices — because before consumers can have open access, you have to have open development,” said Lewis. “In hosting this conference, our aim is to jump start the development community by sharing information needed to develop devices for our network that achieve our network performance goals while making it easy for them to deliver devices.”
