Posts Tagged ‘operators’

mobile music business models …

Interesting article at the WSJ.com, arguing that business models for mobile downloading of music are not ready yet, pricing is too high, design and funktionality of the devices is crappy … Still, some positive aspects remain … Handset makers and wireless carriers […] have one big advantage in competing with Apple’s hit digital-music player: Cellphones […]

Taking On the Wireless Goliaths

Interesting article on the changes brought by innovative business model thinking … threatening incumbents that hold on to their models of old. A new generation of service providers — so-called mobile virtual network operators — is targeting the big guys with bold consumer offerings and As they enter the market, these upstarts could change the […]

Unrealistic Expectations of Mobile Carriers

This is strange, those mobile carriers are showing a deep misunderstanding of the nature of competition in the music business today … and I assume they don’t understand their customers too […] carriers are entertaining unrealistic expectations of potential revenue and consumer price points for mobile downloading of songs. The carriers are reportedly deluded by […]