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2008-09-22 , 18:40
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Originally Posted by Texrat View Post
Eventually the entire phone service model will be flipped: everything will run on IP instead of the old "POTS" way or the hodge-podge we have now. Nokia would be crazy (as a corporate entity) not to get ready for that.
Originally Posted by Texrat View Post
If they (carriers) haven't understood that eventuality by now, then they deserve to lose business IMO.

But it sure does seem like the Big 2 (in the US) don't get it yet, doesn't it?
Originally Posted by ARJWright View Post
A device that is connected to a data only connection using a SIP for telephony interface and built on a largely open source platform has the ability to take carriers completely out of the mix, though will make backhaul and internet service providers feel even more like the utilities they are but aren't acting like.

This is disruptive technology at its finest.

The OSiMworld conference made it clear to me that NOBODY but Nokia is getting it yet; worse, nobody else seems to be preparing for it. Lots of hot air about OpenSource, but it seems mostly ... hot air. I have other, more earthy, phrases for what seemed to be going on most of the time, with most of the other vendors, at OSiMworld, involving some form of group onanism, but I'll avoid them.

Unless something fundamental changes in the next 6 months in the mobile industry, Nokia is gonna blindside this industry with the N900. They won't know what hit 'em. There will be panic in the boardrooms, slashed prices on data plans, everyone competing to see who can give you the lowest price for TCP/IP on their network. The mobile carriers will be reduced, in one fell swoop, to mere ISPs.
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