Google Confirms Plan To Offer Its Own Wireless Service
More on Google’s plans to become a mobile provider
Reports over the last few months have suggested the firm is launching a service to be offered across an existing cellular network under a Google brand. This would make Google a “mobile virtual network operator”. However, there had been no confirmation of the company’s plans until Sundar Pichai, spoke at Mobile World Congress in Barcelona on Monday.
“You’ll see us announce it in the coming months,” Pichai elaborated. He also noted Google service will not be a full-service mobile network competing with existing carriers.
The plan is to use the new MNVO service as a platform to experiment with various new services for Android smartphones.
Pichai drew an analogy to the Google’s current development model in hardware, where the firms cooperates with existing partners on its Nexus line of devices. The new phones allow Google to garner experience in hardware as well as a platform to develop various services, but are not really supposed to challenge major smartphone firms such as Samsung Electronics Co., Ltd. (LON:BC94) (KRX:005930) and HTC Corp (TPE:2498).
He also commented he hopes other cellular carriers will run with some of the ideas and innovations Google comes up with should they prove successful with users.
source: http://www.valuewalk.com/2015/03/google-confirms-plan-to-offer-its-own-wireless-service/
More on Google’s plans to become a mobile provider
Reports over the last few months have suggested the firm is launching a service to be offered across an existing cellular network under a Google brand. This would make Google a “mobile virtual network operator”. However, there had been no confirmation of the company’s plans until Sundar Pichai, spoke at Mobile World Congress in Barcelona on Monday.
“You’ll see us announce it in the coming months,” Pichai elaborated. He also noted Google service will not be a full-service mobile network competing with existing carriers.
The plan is to use the new MNVO service as a platform to experiment with various new services for Android smartphones.
Pichai drew an analogy to the Google’s current development model in hardware, where the firms cooperates with existing partners on its Nexus line of devices. The new phones allow Google to garner experience in hardware as well as a platform to develop various services, but are not really supposed to challenge major smartphone firms such as Samsung Electronics Co., Ltd. (LON:BC94) (KRX:005930) and HTC Corp (TPE:2498).
He also commented he hopes other cellular carriers will run with some of the ideas and innovations Google comes up with should they prove successful with users.
source: http://www.valuewalk.com/2015/03/google-confirms-plan-to-offer-its-own-wireless-service/