The N81 receives no operator love in the UK, more countries to follow?
By Stefan Constantinescu on Monday, October 8th, 2007 at 11:13 AM PST In Nokia, Orange, Ovi, T-Mobile, Three, Vodafone
The N81 is the flagship device from Nokia (NYSE: NOK) that has a built in music and game store, something that upset quite a few operators (Orange and now T-Mobile (NYSE: DT)) in the UK who already provide their customers with such solutions. They see this as a threat so they’re refusing to sell the deivce (subsidized of course) to their customers. Now I don’t have the figures, maybe Nokia knows something I don’t, but I would imagine operators sales are still a large portion of their business.
This is just the UK, what about the rest of the world? Will Nokia’s attempt at turning operators into bit pipes take off? It is going to be one long and tedious fight, Nokia isn’t the only one in the ring however. When you use a third party internet service aka something that is not offered in your operators walled garden then you make business executives cry.
Their fault for not innovating fast enough I say! With NSN bleeding money, the $8.1 billion purchase of Navteq and now operators lifting their noses in the air and ignoring the Finnish giants products, it should be interesting to see where Nokia’s stock is this time next year.
I think there’s a misspelling in the title of this one.
One should not rush the art of blogging, thanks Reptile! I owe you one.
People in UK shud move to Vodafone or 02
T-Mobile is the latest network to turn down Nokia’s flagship music phone, the N81, for Christmas. T-Mobile has claimed to be enjoying steady growth on its ‘Jukebox’ service.
Vodafone will offer the N81, including the Nokia Music Store, but it will play second fiddle to the network’s own MusicStation service. Despite having secured the iPhone, O2 will also range the music device.
Here one huge step forward to more free mobiluse>
http://www.nokia.com/A4136001?newsid=1158811
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What’s interesting is that the two GSM carriers in the ‘States, AT&T and T-mobile USA do NOT currently have their own music download services. AT&T has taken a surprisingly open stance, instead opting to ensure all of their “music phones” are PlaysForSure compatible (which, most the new S60 devices are), and T-Mobile USA is just behind in everything except for prices, so this device looks like it would be a slam-dunk to both of the carriers over here. Interesting…..
Yes Ricky It had be real nice if AT&T and T-Mobile in Usa had this great music&game phone in there stock.
I can only pray…
down with Nokia!!!