In business,
open communication (or
open access to communication resources) is the ability of anyone, on equal conditions with a transparent relation between cost and pricing, to get access to and share communication resources on one level to provide value added services on another level in a layered communication system architecture. Simply put, Open access plans are to deregulate
oligarchy of
telecom operators in a bid to give consumers more choices for equipment, services and service vendors or carriers. It will also provide some breathing room for the controversial
Net neutrality that has been the central issue between
mobile carriers, like
AT&T,
Verizon and
Sprint Nextel, and web media moguls, like
eBay,
Amazon.com and
Google.