Verizon's walled garden opening up?

When you've invested billions of dollars into a network, partnerships, systems, processes, and people to support a walled garden, how long does it take to open up the garden, and what does the garden look like after the fact?  Verizon appears ready to find out, or they are at least ready to start the PR parade.

I share some of Om's cynicism, but regardless of Verizon's motives and intentions, Verizon seems to realize at least to some degree that Internet pervasiveness has brought us to an inflection point in just about every industry/product segment in which walled gardens keep more people out than they keep in. 

A good litmus test to see how Verizon is going to approach this?  Let's see which comes first:

1. Articles about the millions of dollars of deep packet inspection and payload-based billing systems that Verizon is going to incorporate in order to "manage" their soon to be "open" network.

2. Articles about third-party mobile devices that interop with Verizon's network, using CDMA for voice when necessary, and using unrestricted IP to place VoIP calls using third-party solutions when more appropriate.