{"id":689,"date":"2014-01-30T12:11:06","date_gmt":"2014-01-30T02:11:06","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.gedda.info\/?p=689"},"modified":"2014-01-30T12:11:06","modified_gmt":"2014-01-30T02:11:06","slug":"new-smartphone-options-for-local-telcos","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.gedda.info\/?p=689","title":{"rendered":"New smartphone options for local telcos"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>These days you can buy a smartphone from almost anywhere, from a mobile carrier to a grocery store. This month we put <a href=\"https:\/\/www.telsyte.com.au\/?p=2202\" target=\"_blank\">out an announcement<\/a> on how this trend might impact telcos. Now, the telcos may turn around and say &#8220;that&#8217;s good, we don&#8217;t want to be smartphone retailers anyway&#8221; as their core business is mobile services, not handset sales. The problem is they risk loosing their advantage of being a trusted advisor for valued-added mobile services as well, particularly in the business space.<\/p>\n<p>The smartphone market has rapidly solidified around the two big incumbent platforms, Apple&#8217;s iOS and Google&#8217;s Android. BlackBerry and Microsoft are holding their own, but the new range of smartphone operating systems:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>FirefoxOS<\/li>\n<li>Ubuntu<\/li>\n<li>SailfishOS<\/li>\n<li>Tizen<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>may also help carrier differentiation, in addition to consumer choice. There are already handsets available running each of those and 2014 is looking like a big device launch year for Ubuntu and Tizen.<\/p>\n<p>Telstra has already signaled its intention to <a href=\"http:\/\/firefoxosblog.net\/firefox-os-australia-telstra\/\" target=\"_blank\">evaluate FirefoxOS<\/a> as an alternative smartphone platform. It will be interesting to see if all three mobile carriers come through with a alternatives to the incumbents. The reward could mean more than just handset sales if they provide a path to more value-added services.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>These days you can buy a smartphone from almost anywhere, from a mobile carrier to a grocery store. This month we put out an&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":6,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3,11,24,25,27],"tags":[96,100,93,98,94,95,99,97],"class_list":["post-689","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-apple","category-google","category-microsoft","category-mobile","category-open-source","tag-firefox","tag-firefoxos","tag-mobility","tag-sailfishos","tag-smartphone","tag-telco","tag-tizen","tag-ubuntu"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.gedda.info\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/689","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.gedda.info\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.gedda.info\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.gedda.info\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/6"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.gedda.info\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=689"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.gedda.info\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/689\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":690,"href":"https:\/\/www.gedda.info\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/689\/revisions\/690"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.gedda.info\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=689"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.gedda.info\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=689"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.gedda.info\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=689"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}