Telecom

With his usual brilliance, Martin Geddes identifies the true core competence of the typical incumbent telco. Discussing the role of network effects in the growth of media businesses like satellite radio, he notes that the relevant network effects may be external to the product itself and may not be obvious:
Every successful media company is based [...]

Japan’s NTT DoCoMo announced it has reached the milestone of 10-million users for its 3G service. DoCoMo’s FOMA service was launched in the fall of 2001 and is available in virtually all populated areas of Japan. In a statement, the company attributed the rapid the rapid growth of the W-CDMA service to the fact that [...]

Motorola and Skype announced this week at 3GSM World Congress in Cannes, France, that Motorola would launch a line of “Skype Ready” products, including cell phones and handsets. In addition, the two companies will explore opportunities broadly across both companies, leveraging Motorola’s strength in mobility, advanced technologies, mobile devices and accessories and Skype’s rapidly-growing [...]

New research by Infonetics Research suggests that carriers believe that voice is the application most likely to drive the adoption of wireless LANs in the enterprise. Over half of the service providers surveyed in the study said the greatest barriers to enterprise Wi-Fi market growth are the unproven business model and the lack of mature [...]