Did Verizon Just Kneecap GOOG’s Android?

Verizon says customers will be able to connect non-Verizon phones and devices to the network by the end of 2008. Did they just intercept GOOG’s 700Mhz spectrum considerations for their own open network and torpedo their mobile SDK for open source phones on that same network?

Link to eWeek’s story.

Here’s a take on the story from Microsoft-Watch.

[via Scoble]