GLG News by Former C-level Executives in the Technology, Media & Telecom Councils in Member Programs

Nokia needs to make this play work to ensure their 500million sales keep going as phones mutate into mini-laptops and voice is a small part of the offering.

The incumbent pan India Government telecom services provider status os BSNL sets it apart from the competition. The list of pluses include the largest wireline & wireless infrastructure, cash surplus, a vast pool of talent, economies of scale, first mover advantage in licensing and roll...

Like the credit crunch, you probably can't escape Cloud Computing.     

Beginning of 2008, some companies with no telecom experience pay $400 million and get pan India 2G licenses with spectrum. Next 3G licensing terms are formulated such as to compel foreign Telcos to tie up with 2G license holders to enter high growth Indian market. The valuations of these companies shoot...

Nortel at its height commanded market valuation of US $398 billion in September 2000. This September the figure plummeted to menacingly low US $ 2.76 billion. The company is on the brink of failure due to unclear path on product portfolio & mergers to attain mega vendor status in past and now, accounting...

While there is a definite impact on the low-income sector, and cable/telcos are seeing the impact with users canceling subscriptions, wireless/cellular does carry easy access (good for consumers) and higher margins (less susceptible economic low down) and will weather the storm. So yes there will...

I agree with Paul's analysis and associated conclusions.  I would also add that when Google reaches the level of reliability attained by other SaaS like suppliers (SalesForce.com, etc.) then their gmail offering will become acceptable to the enterprise businesses. 

China Mobile is keen on the Android phones.  In addition to HTC, China Mobile has formed a joint venture with a local startup to build Android phones. 

The HTC Android phone will be closely compared with the 3G iPhone.  Most likely the look and feel won't be as sleek as the iPhone.  However, Android phones will have the processing speed that is hard to beat.  In addition, the open handset model features may not initially be impressive. ...

As was the case years back when ISDN and other carrier technologies first started coming out of the factory, the vendors have always argued, - economy of scale will always bring real returns - there is always a minimum entry price - stay in or work a partnership It would seem that having exited...