GLG News by Smartphones Experts

Verizon Wireless has been under pressure to address open network access. Despite this recent announcement that Verizon will provide access to its network, Verizon’s true intentions vis-à-vis open acess are still up for debate.

The Apple iPhone launch on the AT&T network in the US has generated some interesting observations about mobile device manufacturers, operators and consumers.

Google’s foray into mobile advertising is predictable and necessary yet faces significant obstacles.

Verizon is leveraging its pre-paid offerings to attract new customers and test new business models.

Motorola must address their product portfolio, software and services issues to have a material, sustainable performance improvement.

Mobile operators, including AT&T, need to create customer friendly and sticky services or they risk being relegated to a dumb pipe.

Google is the undisputed online advertising leader. With their rumored push into mobile, the biggest impact may be bringing advertising to the mobile mainstream.

This is a significant milestone in the business sense.  So far, Wimax had been viewed as a threat to the incumbents from the left field.  With this approval by ITU, it begins to legitimize WiMax among the cellular incumbents.

Technology improvements combined with a fresh look at the mobile user experience are required for mobile video to succeed.

The strongest supporter of WiMax Intel has announced that it will embed its WiMax technology in the processor dubbed Montevina in May of 2008. Intel intends to establish their own Intel-based handsets as well. The biggest US WiMax operator Sprint Nextel also announced that they will deploy WiMax to...