Comments on: BT’s cool WiFi cellphone http://gigaom.com/2004/11/01/bts-cool-wifi-cellphone/ Sat, 11 Feb 2012 06:01:09 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.com/ By: Jesse Kopelman http://gigaom.com/2004/11/01/bts-cool-wifi-cellphone/#comment-98726 Wed, 30 Nov -0001 00:00:00 +0000 http://gigaom.wordpress.com/2004/11/01/bts-cool-wifi-cellphone/#comment-98726 If they are smart, it will help them in the residential market where they make no money due to free nights and weekends and increasing in-building penetration requires lots of expensive base stations (vs cheap WiFi hubs that come with DSL).

]]> By: Om http://gigaom.com/2004/11/01/bts-cool-wifi-cellphone/#comment-98727 Wed, 30 Nov -0001 00:00:00 +0000 http://gigaom.wordpress.com/2004/11/01/bts-cool-wifi-cellphone/#comment-98727 Good point Jesse… i think this whole notion of fixed price plans is more disruptive than people realize and most telecom companies need to realize this truth and basically change their financial structure in accordance

]]> By: Jesse Kopelman http://gigaom.com/2004/11/01/bts-cool-wifi-cellphone/#comment-98728 Wed, 30 Nov -0001 00:00:00 +0000 http://gigaom.wordpress.com/2004/11/01/bts-cool-wifi-cellphone/#comment-98728 If you took away the Network Operations budget and had them bill Sales and Marketing directly, attitudes would change very quickly. Of course, that really makes far too much sense to ever happen.

]]> By: Andy Abramson http://gigaom.com/2004/11/01/bts-cool-wifi-cellphone/#comment-98729 Wed, 30 Nov -0001 00:00:00 +0000 http://gigaom.wordpress.com/2004/11/01/bts-cool-wifi-cellphone/#comment-98729 Let’s see. SBC owns part of Cingular. They then start a WiFi phone service. Cingular business erodes. This hurts who? SBC or BellSouth more?

SBC buys BellSouth…

Set, Game, Match.

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