Free Press has a new campaign, "Free the iPhone", which is actually about much more than the iPhone. It's about openness in general on the 700 MHz spectrum that's coming up for auction soon, and they have three requests:

1. The freedom to use whatever device we want on any network.

Also known as "Cellular Carterfone", this will enable innovation in the wireless market by allowing companies such as Apple to release innovative products without needing the permission of a carrier (and having to sign onerous exclusivity deals to get it).

2. The freedom to choose among many providers in a competitive wholesale marketplace.

Chip Pickering pointed out in Wednesday's telecom hearing that wholesaling is "a very healthy component of any fully functioning economic market." The wireless market has no wholesalers because spectrum is so scarce and barriers to entry so high, and every company that owns wireless spectrum also sells service, cutting down on the potential for innovation in business models.

3. The freedom to access any content or services we want through our devices.

Whether it's Sprint crippling GPS or Verizon refusing to allow Bluetooth except on headsets, carriers (except, now, T-Mobile) blocking access to WiFi or VOIP, or blocking ringtones except their own expensive ones, the entrenched carriers are blocking innovation by trying to charge for every type of content you might want to buy. An open network should work like the Internet - if someone wants to set up a server and pay for the bandwidth to let you upload or download data to that server, you should be able to. It's that simple.

Check out Free the iPhone and free not just the iPhone, but every other innovative phone, application, service, and business model that's better than Verizon's, AT&T's, Sprint's, and T-Mobile's today.