Mathew Ingram picks out a potentially huge change in the US mobile market: Verizon might be cracking things open a bit:

As the Wall Street Journal reported today (in a story that remains behind the soon-to-be-demolished pay wall), Verizon has announced that it will open its mobile network to any device that meets a certain minimum standard -- although it says it will continue to offer “locked” devices through its retail network. Like Cynthia Brumfield at IPDemocracy, I think this could be a pretty huge development.

If this leads to a general spread of unlocked devices, the hype surrounding the iPhone could change awfully quickly - and I would bet good money that Apple would start taking a much more lax view toward unlocking. This could be a very interesting change...

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