Comments on: Death knell for mobile? http://saunderslog.com/2008/02/26/death-knell-for-mobile/ A daily round table on the tech industry with experts and callers from all over the globe. Join us as we pick apart the news and get to the meat of what\'s happening out there. Tue, 02 Dec 2008 16:30:02 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.6 By: Alec http://saunderslog.com/2008/02/26/death-knell-for-mobile/#comment-609826 Alec Tue, 26 Feb 2008 21:49:20 +0000 http://saunderslog.com/2008/02/26/death-knell-for-mobile/#comment-609826 Ameet, That is the docomo model, in fact. I'd love to see that replicated elsewhere. A Ameet,

That is the docomo model, in fact. I’d love to see that replicated elsewhere.

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]]> By: Alec http://saunderslog.com/2008/02/26/death-knell-for-mobile/#comment-609824 Alec Tue, 26 Feb 2008 21:48:48 +0000 http://saunderslog.com/2008/02/26/death-knell-for-mobile/#comment-609824 Jonathan, I think the problem is simply that most operators want to deploy applications which target a substantial swath of the market. Here in Canada, for example, one operator isn't ready to talk unless you can show a 65% potential vs the overall market. Yet we're becoming more and more invidual, and the handset is becoming more and more personal. I would argue that content is not the way to go. Being the content delivery platform certainly makes sense. Being in control of what content is available is a reversion to the old broadcast television model. That doesn't work anymore. Just ask anyone in Hollywood who's fighting bittorrent downloads. Jonathan,

I think the problem is simply that most operators want to deploy applications which target a substantial swath of the market. Here in Canada, for example, one operator isn’t ready to talk unless you can show a 65% potential vs the overall market.

Yet we’re becoming more and more invidual, and the handset is becoming more and more personal.

I would argue that content is not the way to go. Being the content delivery platform certainly makes sense. Being in control of what content is available is a reversion to the old broadcast television model. That doesn’t work anymore. Just ask anyone in Hollywood who’s fighting bittorrent downloads.

]]> By: Ameet http://saunderslog.com/2008/02/26/death-knell-for-mobile/#comment-609505 Ameet Tue, 26 Feb 2008 19:13:25 +0000 http://saunderslog.com/2008/02/26/death-knell-for-mobile/#comment-609505 Alec, Isn't NTT DoCoMo doing that? I remember reading somewhere (a while back), that NTT was actually stepping back from provinding applications to its customers. They were letting third party vendors provide new applications and NTT was just providing a single stop billing service to the customers and taking a small percentage of that. I hope that service providers everywhere learn something from NTT! Alec,

Isn’t NTT DoCoMo doing that? I remember reading somewhere (a while back), that NTT was actually stepping back from provinding applications to its customers. They were letting third party vendors provide new applications and NTT was just providing a single stop billing service to the customers and taking a small percentage of that.

I hope that service providers everywhere learn something from NTT!

]]> By: Jonathan Jensen http://saunderslog.com/2008/02/26/death-knell-for-mobile/#comment-609441 Jonathan Jensen Tue, 26 Feb 2008 18:38:07 +0000 http://saunderslog.com/2008/02/26/death-knell-for-mobile/#comment-609441 However, the operators are desperate to move up the value chain so they are looking at more & more ways to get into content. They know their existing business is commoditised so content looks like the way forward. However, the operators are desperate to move up the value chain so they are looking at more & more ways to get into content. They know their existing business is commoditised so content looks like the way forward.

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