Seven weeks ago , we wrote about how Verizon Wireless wasn't letting buyers of the Google Nexus 7 tablet connect the device to its LTE network. Verizon claimed that the Nexus 7 had to go through a "certification process" that "generally takes only between four and six weeks."

Verizon still hasn't greenlighted the Nexus 7, even though it has long worked on the AT&T and T-Mobile networks, even though Verizon uses spectrum with open access rules that require the carrier to make its network open to all devices, and even though customers have successfully connected the Nexus 7 to Verizon LTE without authorization simply by swapping a SIM card from another device.

Verizon yesterday issued a statement to Android Police, saying that Google "asked Verizon to suspend its certification process":

During the certification process for the Nexus 7, Google, Asus, and Verizon uncovered a systems issue that required Google and Asus to undertake additional work with the Jelly Bean OS running on the device. Since Google was about to launch its new Kit Kat OS, rather than undertake this work, Google and Asus asked Verizon to suspend its certification process until Google's new OS was available on the Nexus 7.

We've asked Google and Verizon what this "systems issue" is and why it can't be fixed on Jelly Bean, but we haven't heard back yet. KitKat is the latest version of Android, not yet available on the Nexus 7.

Journalist and professor Jeff Jarvis, a Nexus 7 owner, has led the charge complaining about Verizon not authorizing the Nexus 7 for its network. Yesterday, he sent a second "complaint to the FCC about Verizon Wireless’ continued refusal to connect my Google Nexus 7 tablet to its allegedly 'open' network," he wrote on his blog.

"Let me be clear that in the end, the issue is not Verizon’s certification or even the FCC’s but the definition of 'open' and whether any device complying with published standards can connect with this network," Jarvis wrote. "If the network is truly open as the Commission has decreed, then any device that meets standards for the network should be connected to it with no proprietary certification required. In the Nexus 7, Asus has manufactured a device that meets these standards, has been certified by the FCC, and works on any compatible network as clearly demonstrated with worldwide use. For Verizon to hide behind its claim of a right to certify only brings needless confusion to the Commission’s rules and rulings about open networks."