GLG News by Amdocs Product Experts

Verizon Wireless’s announced agreement with Brightpoint to support handsets for indirect retail channels appears to be an attempt to separate company-owned direct distribution.

Virgin Mobile USA’s acquisition of Helio is favorable for platform efficiencies, handset inventories and cash infusion, but the saturated teen market trends are questionable for retention and growth.

The strong initial sales of the $130 Samsung Instinct indicate that Sprint Nextel can thwart churn with handset upgrades and that there could be a price war of smartphones and unlimited data.

Different from healthcare dictation and call center IVRs, Nuance faces the challenge of the fragmented mobile market of device manufacturers, mobile carriers and application developers.

According to the media and several prominent individuals, SaaS is the future of the software business.  The “old-fashioned” licensed software model is doomed.  Yet the most profitable and biggest software companies have only a limited presence in SaaS.  Does this mean they are out of...

Whoever gets fiber to the customer first wins, or whoever gets future-proofed revenue-producing services to the customer wins, however one wants to say it.  Once the CATV MSOs begin seriously investigating FTTP, PON or other fiber-based final customer loop decisions, things are heating up on the...

Motorola’s new camera phone won’t be enough to resuscitate their ailing handset business, but it does show that some innovation still lives within Motorola.  This is not the second coming of the RAZR, but is a good beginning if they can follow with other innovative products.

The move from rotating disks to Solid State Disks (SSD) is happening faster than most predicted.  Rotating disk vendors such as Seagate will likely see margins erode as they lose the high-end disk business to SSD.

AT&T's Uverse is doing well, people are buying it, and VOILA!  Along comes VZ overbuilding T, AND selling 5 times the AT&T data speed to customers.  This puts CATV MSOs and AT&T/Qwest and anyone else not doing FTTP in a quandry.  Do they continue to build hybrid fiber-copper...

The AT&T CEO’s keynote at the NXTcomm2008 reminiscing about railroads and telephones could imply that AT&T is not going to be an agile, speedy player for multimedia communications.