Comments on: Is Apple About to Cut Out the Carriers? http://gigaom.com/2010/10/27/is-apple-about-to-cut-out-the-carriers/ Wed, 22 May 2013 09:47:54 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.com/ By: Apple COO Cook Hints at Less Expensive iPhone | John Paczkowski | Digital Daily | AllThingsD http://gigaom.com/2010/10/27/is-apple-about-to-cut-out-the-carriers/#comment-602311 Mon, 28 Feb 2011 19:24:41 +0000 http://gigaom.com/?p=203877#comment-602311 [...] less expensive hardware and better carrier rates, or even a move to disintermediate carriers with a soft-SIM. View Comments Tagged: Apple, Digital Daily, John Paczkowski, digital, hardware, innovation, [...]

]]> By: 5 Reasons a Small, Cloud-Based iPhone Makes Sense: Mobile Technology News « http://gigaom.com/2010/10/27/is-apple-about-to-cut-out-the-carriers/#comment-593736 Tue, 15 Feb 2011 21:36:59 +0000 http://gigaom.com/?p=203877#comment-593736 [...] directly for additional profit, much like mobile virtual network operators do today. If you tie in both old and new reports of Apple working on an embedded or universal SIM, it lends credence to this [...]

]]> By: arvind rao http://gigaom.com/2010/10/27/is-apple-about-to-cut-out-the-carriers/#comment-591391 Sat, 12 Feb 2011 10:10:26 +0000 http://gigaom.com/?p=203877#comment-591391 its time for US and European telcos to look carefully at what telcos in India have done – the iphone is a complete failure in this large emerging market of 700 million subscribers. So much so that the telcos have not even bothered to launch the iphone 4 version. Telcos have built out large walled gardens of Value Added Services from which they are currently seeing upto 10% of their topline revenues (much higher margins). All this while completely neutering any moves by Apple, Google etc. By building large profiling databases and mining them well for core and non-core services, the telcos are building a barrier which Apple and Google will never be able to catch up to, and by then it will be too late for them to even try to do so.

Unfortunately US and European telcos have taken the short-term easy route to revenues by giving in to the dumb pipe model which Apple is endorsing while laughing all the way to the bank.

This is a wake up call to them before their dumb pipes corrode into zero margin, high cost headaches.

]]> By: Could Apple Be Your Next Phone Company?: Tech News and Analysis « http://gigaom.com/2010/10/27/is-apple-about-to-cut-out-the-carriers/#comment-590065 Thu, 10 Feb 2011 22:38:02 +0000 http://gigaom.com/?p=203877#comment-590065 [...] mobile world are becoming clearer. Bloomberg reported today that the device maker has plans for a universal SIM card that I first reported on in October, and that Apple is seeking a way to make it possible for consumers to pay for mobile access from [...]

]]> By: Is the Gemalto SIM Actually for a Dual-Mode iPhone 5?: Apple News, Tips and Reviews « http://gigaom.com/2010/10/27/is-apple-about-to-cut-out-the-carriers/#comment-588180 Mon, 07 Feb 2011 22:20:47 +0000 http://gigaom.com/?p=203877#comment-588180 [...] answer may lie in a tweet which is related to the news we broke last year regarding an embedded SIM solution from Gemalto, a company th…. @Lessien  @KevinCTofel @drizzled Crazy speculation but what about those rumors of Gemalto [...]

]]> By: vancouver web development http://gigaom.com/2010/10/27/is-apple-about-to-cut-out-the-carriers/#comment-584753 Wed, 02 Feb 2011 03:34:22 +0000 http://gigaom.com/?p=203877#comment-584753 It would work very well in Cananda too. I am not sure that Mobile Providers would actually want this.

]]> By: munif http://gigaom.com/2010/10/27/is-apple-about-to-cut-out-the-carriers/#comment-537304 Sun, 05 Dec 2010 12:53:42 +0000 http://gigaom.com/?p=203877#comment-537304 Early this year I was looking & searching to suggest this idea to Google but I could not found any contact “poor Google”. Now it happen by Apple not me+google “if true”, customer will have excellent customer care while operators will take rest.

The game will not stop between operators and Apple+ “handset manufactures” but I guess Apple+ will win and another competition start on …..

Apple strategy is very easy. They are looking to telecom market as this equation 6x+6y= z then make it 6(x+y)= z; 6 is apple new business or share for example iPad, new sim….++i won’t tell++. This 6 based on market needs or customer demands……etc.

]]> By: Apple SIM Soap Opera to Play Out on M2M and SmartGrid: Tech News « http://gigaom.com/2010/10/27/is-apple-about-to-cut-out-the-carriers/#comment-521539 Tue, 23 Nov 2010 16:18:58 +0000 http://gigaom.com/?p=203877#comment-521539 [...] month, we broke the news that Apple was working with SIM-card manufacturer Gemalto to create an embedded SIM that could effectively bypass carrier control. Instead of [...]

]]> By: Anonymous http://gigaom.com/2010/10/27/is-apple-about-to-cut-out-the-carriers/#comment-520211 Mon, 22 Nov 2010 14:05:34 +0000 http://gigaom.com/?p=203877#comment-520211 [...] [...]

]]> By: Carrier Organization Changes Rules to Allow the “Apple SIM”: Tech News « http://gigaom.com/2010/10/27/is-apple-about-to-cut-out-the-carriers/#comment-515897 Thu, 18 Nov 2010 15:13:18 +0000 http://gigaom.com/?p=203877#comment-515897 [...] operators, today changed its rules to allow for a programmable SIM card much like we described Apple building with Gemalto a few weeks back. It also set up a task force to create rules around how carriers will provision the [...]

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