The big news in mobile this week is that Nokia has bought Symbian, the mobile operating system provider, so that it can give it away. In the first article on this news we looked at the deal from the view of the shareholders and competitive threats. In this second article [...]

The recent purchase of Symbian by Nokia highlights the tensions around running a consortium-owned platform business. Obviously, Nokia believes that making the software royalty-free and open source is the key to future mass adoption. The team at Telco 2.0 disagree and believe the creation of the Symbian Foundation will cure [...]

In Today's Issue: Motorola in the psychiatric ward; Verwaayen takes a bow;Bharti/MTN deal in the offing; Vodafone buys social network app, customers; Orascom: Iraq, Syria, Zimbabwe, North Korea, and now Cuba; C&W soon to be C and W; data from space cheaper than SMS; Qualcomm in the UK; more mobile-TV [...]

In Today's Issue: Online businesses crave telco capabilities (potentially…). Motorola rearranges the deckchairs. Nokia profits up 25%, but you wouldn't want to see what went into that. Is Comes With Music a lossmaker? Nobody pays for the stuff anyway. Silverlight everywhere. And Moonlight. Is Microsoft IBM in 1993? 1,788 entries [...]

In Today's Issue: BT starts Verwaayen succession plan, ideal candidate said to be "probably male"; Brough Turner takes the separation gospel to ETech; iPlayer hits mobile; Alltel goes flatrate, hoists white flag; Yahoo! lines up to whack telcos; Sun outwits Apple over iPhone; Sony lines up to whack telcos; hackers [...]

It is not very often when a proposition comes along that promises to affect the core business of both the Network Equipment Providers and Mobile Network Operators but a small(ish) engineering company based in Thirsk, Yorkshire, called Private Mobile Networks (PMN), is trying to disrupt both business models. As with [...]

Telco 2.0 comes to you from the Mobile World Congress … sorry … 3GSM this week; not only were we covering the news but we were part of it, but that's another story. A big theme in the news this week was mobile Linux; Orange joined the LiMo Foundation, the [...]

As you may have read in our news post this week, as well as elsewhere, Sprint-Nextel is in deep trouble. Since this is a story that has been well-covered in the industry press, we'll just briefly recap the main points, but dig deeper into the business model aspects. The basic [...]

BT strikes in the set-top box market; they're the first to ship Xbox360 consoles as IPTV endpoints. And there's more; BT Vision gets an "on-screen magazine" based on the same single platform. We've often said that the fixed-line world doesn't get user equipment, and that this creates interesting opportunities; BT [...]