Ian Wood
PartnerWireless Foundry
Ian Wood is the Founding Partner of Wireless Foundry, a telecom and IT consultancy founded in 1998. His clients include France Telecom/Orange, SonyEricsson, Vodafone, Openwave and Qualcomm. He was among the first employees of Motorola Cellular Communications in Europe, where he joined in 1985, and rose to the position of GM Finance Europe for their cellular subscriber business. He spent three years at McKinsey & Company in their Wireless group. After that he joined Cable & Wireless' Wireless Strategy Group, and finally founded his twelve-man consultancy in 1998. He is frequently interviewed by the Financial Times and the BBC about Fixed Mobile Convergence, UMA and Wireless issues including M-Commerce. He is knowledgeable in the mobile enterprise space, 4G wireless ultrawide band, the cable space (including the DT divestiture of cable), and the handset space. He works with IXI mobile, Symbian, and the GSM Association as well as SE and Qualcomm. His recent projects have included a review of the European market for HDTV and Mobile TV in particular for Broadcast and Mobile Network Operators; Voice based services within IP telephony for European Telecoms Company and Integration Strategy for European Mobile Operator following recent acquisition. (This is me - Update Profile)
| 1996 - present | Partner Wireless Foundry |
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GLG Study Groups with Ian Wood(?)
| Study Group Name | Members |
|---|---|
| Europe Cable Networks Experts (EU) | 30 |
| Radio Frequency Identification Experts | 211 |
| Wimax Experts (EU) | 16 |
| Telecom Experts who are GLG Leaders,Scholars and Educators | 111 |
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The market is still fragmented. In the big five we still see a wide spread of take up as consumers are yet to be won over. The mobile networks are still to discover a range of products that make the investment pay off. This talks about terminals rather than handsets and so a slowing of sales of phones...
This is something that they should have launched 12 months ago. Failing that then we should have seen it in February at GSM World. The design is dated and the technology is out of date. This new handset is not going to have Networks placing orders outside of the US. At best this gets a C...
With ever more of the business done by Nokia in the Emerging Markets just how important is a handset with such a rich feature set? The Blackberry like E71 whilst attractive suffers from a limited number of Enterprise Applications. How does these handsets fit into the OVI service?
When Colao left McKinsey to help run Omnitel as the COO he showed that he was more that a "Strategy Man" working alongside Francesco Ciao he showed that he was someone vary capable at Operational matters. With Cioa gone, he steppped up to the CEO role and integrated the Omnitel into Vodafone....
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