Verizon already announced BYOD (Bring Your Own Device) will be out in 4q of this year, and verizon won the auction for the bandwidth the fcc auctioned off. One provision of the auction was that whoever won had to open up their network to devices from other carriers. (Hence the reason Verizon announced BYOD a few months before they won the auction) They knew they wanted the bandwidth, and I bet they would have paid double what they ended up paying.

Verizon doesn't have to give us cool new phones after this year. Go buy a verizon approved phone on amazon or ebay or anywhere else and bring it with you.