In what is perhaps the most misleading headline I have seen in quite some time, USA Today touts that "AT&T flings cellphone network wide open". How did it fling itself wide open? Why, by graciously allowing you to use any device you'd like. Of course, you already could do that, as you could with any GSM network or device the world over, but that's of course irrelevant to AT&T. They seem to have very shrewdly changed the debate from locked devices, which you really cannot use on any network, regardless of what the network you want to use it on says, to a question of whether a network will accept your phone. It's complete hogwash and an obfuscation of the very reason behind open networks and technologies like Android - people don't want to be stuck with a provider simply because the expensive-ass phone they bought must be unlocked and that company refuses to do so.

So exactly how open is open?