Comments on: MNOs – Smart Pipe, Dumb Pipe, You Decide

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MNOs - Smart Pipe, Dumb Pipe, You Decide — Wed, 19 Sep 2007 18:20:30 +0000

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By: Anon

Anon — Wed, 05 Sep 2007 13:09:59 +0000

Oops – I mean woman! Ouch, how embarrassing, should’ve read to the end…

By: Anon

Anon — Wed, 05 Sep 2007 13:09:21 +0000

Do you ever wonder how much these analysts are paid for pointing-out-the-bleedin’-obvious?!

“MNOs will make less money if they are reduced to a role akin to the Royal Mail – the “dumb pipe”.

Get that man a Pulitzer Prize!!

By: Chris Hunter

Chris Hunter — Wed, 05 Sep 2007 10:05:54 +0000

It’s interesting to think which UK operators fit into the above categories. The most obvious in the ‘Dumb Pipe’ (I prefer to call it ‘Bit Pipe’ as all they are doing is carrying data and are not interested in the contents) is T-Mobile. Although I think their approach to data has been excellent, TM has never deployed a good portal.

I guess the others all fit into the ‘On-Portal’ category – Three are clearly the leaders when it comes to having the strongest portal in the UK.

However, you can see things changing… the agreement between Apple and O2 in the UK will see Apple taking revenue share from customers – i.e. ‘ownership’ of the customer is no longer exclusively the operator.

/Chris