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Ian WoodPartnerWireless Foundry

Vodafone under the command of Colao can only be good news

June 18, 2008

Analysis of:Sarin Legacy Isn't All Aces | online.wsj.com

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. On his return to Vodafone he has spent the last 18 months getting ready to succeed Sarin by Optimising the network. Now with an Italian at the head you can expect to see Emerging Markets take a back seat as he follows the startegy of the Spanish Subsiduary and stimulates the market.

Ian WoodPartnerWireless Foundry

What Qualcomm is doing is building a Services Business

June 16, 2008

Analysis of:Qualcomm Creates Mobile Internet Strategy To Go Head-To-Head With Internet Giants | www.washingtonpost.com

Looking at the services businesses of Qualcomm and what you see is the development of a number of verticals.  One of which is BREW; the others are Location, Advertising, Payments, Video.  These services are aimed at helping to create Federations for particular services.  Having created these Federations Qualcomm will be able to influence the strategy of Mobile Networks which will lift the spend on Handsets that run Qualcomm silicon.

Ian WoodPartnerWireless Foundry

Don't panic this is not the end of the world

November 1, 2007

Analysis of:Skype and 3 launch mobile phone | www.reuters.com

What you get with a Skypephone is a service that allows another form of IM as long as you have spent a minimum of £10 per month.  This is not VoIPoM this is something aimed at retaining customers and getting them to keep the phone on so that they can recieve calls.

Ian WoodPartnerWireless Foundry

Form or Function?

October 12, 2007

Analysis of:Motorola Back On Track | www.forbes.com

The V3 was something that was a victim to fortune. Motorola built a very sexy looking handset they just forgot to do something with the software.  So you got a large number of users who discover that this is not a Nokia or a Sony Ericsson and you need to read the instruction book. Life is too short for instruction books, and so people became unhappy that this was a phone that just made calls and sent texts.  As an internet device it is a nightmare. Not a great device for networks looking to raise ARPU with data services so limited lifespan. Motorola have been playing with just what OS to run on the handset.  You can get the Q which is using Microsoft as the engine for the Smartphone.  However the latest Smartphone sees them return to UIQ (Symbian) for the software and it does not have a QWERTY keypad and so once again data services will be limited. David Beckham as a Brand is outdated, just as LA Galaxy about bang for buck.

Ian WoodPartnerWireless Foundry

DRM before we had digital and the spector of regulation

August 1, 2007

Analysis of:Welcome to BBC iPlayer Beta | www.bbc.co.uk

The problem is one of market regulation in the UK, BBC has a track record of innovating before the competition because it has a public broadcast remit.  The Internet activities of the BBC have been cut back because Government and Competitors have complained that it has abused it position and stifled innovation. Having to work in the regulated market the BBC has had to launch the service slowly, hence the fact that at present they are using a form of windows media player to show MP4 content.  The vast majority o the archieve of the BBC does not have rights to broadcast on demand.  Old shows were made before DRM was an issue.  Newer shows are made by independents who did not give the BBC rights for anything other than broadcast.

Todd AntonelliFounder and PresidentAntonelli & Company

To Outsource or Not To Outsource...Insurance Providers Are No Exception

May 30, 2007

Analysis of:Insurance Outsourcing Focuses on India | www.insurancejournal.com

Insurers unlike other industries have had profitability to mask their cost inefficiencies.  I have yet to get an immediate answer of (CFO, CHRO, CTO)'s of large insurers or integrated financial services companies to the question what is the cost of their function.  Forget for a minute they are support functions to the businesses they lead.  Core to the outsoursing question is understanding the true cost to serve and then where and if can it be done better. These functional leaders need to understand the cost to serve of their entire function, their core processes within their functions and then finally prepare a business case for what should be done internally that is core to their business and what could be done externally to the extent it is both cost efficient and cost effective.

Ian WoodPartnerWireless Foundry

Payment or Banking?

April 30, 2007

Analysis of:Mobile Payments Gain Energy | www.wirelessweek.com

What you are seeing in the US is something that we saw in Europe five years ago.  We are going to see a number of services that are extensions of banking services and then others that are payments based.

When you look at payments where we are currently seeing success is in the expansion of banking rather than a substitution of credit cards. The rules for Money Laundering make mass adoption of mobile payments very difficult to roll out the services.

Internationally the big area is in remittances, these services mean that Western Union is challenged and the size and frequency of payments increase.

Ian WoodPartnerWireless Foundry

Just who asked for TV on their phone?

April 11, 2007

Analysis of:How to accelerate the adoption of mobile TV | telephonyonline.com

Mobile TV is all hype with little interest from the user in the street at present.

Content makers are yet to commit to support the Mobile TV sector.

Equipment makers need first off to agree on a global standard.

Ian WoodPartnerWireless Foundry

Yahoo! needs to understand the Mobile market in Europe if its to move forward

April 9, 2007

Analysis of:Strategy Analytics reports Yahoo! Offers Best Mobile Web Experience | www.mobiletechnews.com

The Mobile Web is not about Web2.0 on your handset, if Yahoo! are to be successful they have to see that it is about more than just a smart UI.

Success will come from offering a service that makes them a destination site rather offer to manage Portal services fo the networks as they have done with the Fixed Networks.

Staffing and Politics are still an issue if Yahoo! are to be able to offer and execute a service that Mobile users will be happy with.

Ian WoodPartnerWireless Foundry

Triple Play = financial suiside says Forrester

March 29, 2007

Analysis of:Hard-To-Resist Triple Play Offers | www.forbes.com

Convergence

- is, when it boils down to it, something of a myth

- convergence is a term dreamt up by consultants

- it is lazy short hand for collection of trends

- customers have exactly zero interest in convergence as a concept

- it is therefore a distraction

- it is just one of a number of potential means by which companies can choose to address customers

- it may be right for some customers in some circumstances - but that doesn't make it into the magic bullet that many in the industry believe it to be

- divergence has had a far more impressive track record thus far, in terms of value creation (iTunes, iPod etc are divergent; digital TV's many standards are divergent; digital radio standards are divergent etc)

- convergence has become a dangerous obsession for many players

- FT, DT, BT etc all have a "Convergence Strategy"

- Triple and quad plays are the most common manifestations

- Forrester reckons that on average, a European triple play customer will represent a cumulative loss of €3000-€4000 by 2010

- Their latest work calls triple play "financial suicide"

- IPTV is certainly a weak, immature technology competing against very efficient, well established technologies and highly effective and slick media companies

- Today, there are only 285 million broadband connections ON THE PLANET

- Of them, only 20 million or so are capable of 2mbps or faster ... and this is the total addressable market for IPTV

- In many respects, convergence therefore is another disaster waiting to happen

- strategic herding and lack of imagination threatens the long term prospects of a number of players

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