Seeing a future of mobile telephony very definitely tied to advertising revenue, Google has developed an operating system of its own to rival the dominance of Microsoft’s Windows Mobile. The clever bit is that operators and handset manufacturers currently pay Microsoft for their software. And these operators will soon jump in with Google for something free, remaining largely unaware of the market dynamics tsunami that’s about to hit them. (more…)

Talking to sources in the telecoms infrastructure world recently, it’s clear that very high speed internet on mobile phones will be generally available in developed markets within the next 5 years. That’s easily enough for lots of IPTV. So true television on your mobile phone is just around the corner, if mobile carrier revenue models can work through the financial maths of it. A few taps on the calculator leads you very quickly to one source of revenue for this - advertising. (more…)

Google recently made its plans clear for the soon available 700MHz frequencies to be sold by US licensing authorities (FCC). These frequencies will become available when analogue broadcast television is removed from the airwaves as everyone goes digital. The spectrum will be auctioned but before this happens, Google wants the FCC to make sure the rules of the game enforce an open approach to the bandwidth. This is a blocking manoeuvre against telecom companies who want full control over issues like pricing and software. Google’s end game is to deliver high speed internet for free that is advertising supported. (more…)