GLG News by Mobile Phone Handsets Purchasers

Besides the technical deployment of femtocell, the mini mobile base station has implications for product positioning, target market, and cost/price analysis.  The key issue is the willingness for consumers to pay for a product that the mobile operator improves their coverage and lowers network...

The Google phone will be disruptive to the wireless industry depending on these three factors: 1) Viewing time (“eyeballs”) exceeds talking minutes; 2) Handset embedded with on-deck portal (ODP); 3) Over-the-air (OTA) operator traffic.  The challenge of the Google phone is being an ODP and allowing...

The Skype handset being introduced by 3 Mobile has two key implications: 1) Skype is launching the handset through a mobile operator; 2) Mobile operator is determining the eligible customers for the Skype feature.

For content access, mobile users are seeking the four handset benefits of personalization, customization, simplicity and quickness.  Carriers are competing against ODPs about whether the device or the network will control the user experience.  AT&T launched its PC-to-mobile personalization...

Local search has high potential through mobile handsets because of the following factors: 1) GPS and navigation services, 3) Active vs. passive viewer, 3) Constant user access.

In providing the logistics services for the Wi-Fi and cellular bundled handsets for the DiVitas and Nokia partnership, Brightpoint gains three U.S. distribution areas: 1) Enterprise markets, 2) Dual-mode handsets, 3) Unlocked, carrier-agnostic devices.

Verizon Wireless’ “opt-out” notification for customer proprietary network information (CPNI) could create resistance to Verizon’s partnership with Firethorn for banking transactions.  The CPNI issue raises the issue of the two types of mobile payment: 1) Credit or debit card built into the handset;...

Motorola’s newly announced nine phones create a product line of different form factors and price points.  The product line allows Motorola to better compete in three areas: 1) Mobile Operators, 2) Developing Nations, 3) Wireless Distribution. But the test will be operating margins and net profits....

Virgin Mobile USA and InPhonic are different in their product offerings and customer relationships, but both have the similarity of being wireless IPO’s that are dependent on Internet ordering.

CEO Stan Sigman’s retirement from AT&T Wireless is different from the ouster of CEO Gary Forsee in the following ways: 1) Indirect distribution channels, 2) Network integration, 3) Carrier rebranding.