Love the smell of regret in the morning …

Ahh, my first mistake/correction. Just like old times.

This regards my previous post on Pandora - turns out I didn’t do my homework. Pandora does have such a service with Sprint and AT&T (look here for details). Thanks to David Rose at Bridge Worldwide.

But this gets to a larger issue that is actually in the news today regarding Net Neutrality and access to the Web.

Imagine if your ISP were to limit the content you could access, or at least make it very difficult to navigate away from the preloaded “exclusive” content. Or make it so you only had access to cool stuff via their portal? (AOL tried that and failed, remember)?

The service providers are doing everything they can to control the wireless Web, and they don’t need to. Why not create an open access model that allows users full control over the content and applications they want on their handsets?

Wouldn’t it be cool if everyone had access to Pandora on their phone (provided they had an advanced enough device)? And then let the ads pay for it? Wouldn’t the volume more than cover the loss of recurring service revenues?

Just a thought as I apologize …