This issue of Wireless Review may look a bit different. We’ve set out to make this magazine-within-a-magazine easier to navigate and to freshen the graphics, giving them more color and flexibility.

Perhaps you’re reading this on an airplane, in an office lobby or on a Lifecycle. Whatever your location, you likely have limited time to keep up with industry developments. We’ve reworked the Proving Ground section to bring you, in bulleted form, the critical information you need to know about new technologies.

We’re also aware that, as a print reader, you’re looking for more in-depth information than what you usually find in the short-form electronic sources you rely on for breaking news. So you’ll want to check out Senior Editor Kevin Fitchard’s cover story about open access, which may be the biggest business issue facing wireless carriers today.

How network operators approach open access will affect numerous decisions they will have to make, from devices to software to pricing — and the competitive impact of those decisions could be as significant as when carriers first embraced nationwide plans and unlimited roaming a decade ago. That trend drove an industrywide reorganization. Open access could be of the same order of magnitude.

In my new role as supplements editor for Telephony, I’ll be responsible for the print version of Wireless Review. I’m looking forward to working with Kevin Fitchard and the other Telephony editors to bring you the information you want and need. One of the services we strive to provide is to filter the vast amount of material that comes our way for you. The wackiest, pithiest, most prescient and most useful bits of this now have a home on our new closing page, which we’ve named Signal:Noise.

I welcome your ideas and feedback at joanengebretson@cs.com.