Comments on: TomTom gets nod to buy out TeleAtlas http://www.intomobile.com/2008/05/16/tomtom-gets-nod-to-buy-out-teleatlas.html Cell Phone News, Information, and Analysis Mon, 23 Nov 2009 06:13:41 -0600 http://wordpress.org/?v=abc hourly 1 By: anoska http://www.intomobile.com/2008/05/16/tomtom-gets-nod-to-buy-out-teleatlas.html/comment-page-1/#comment-219859 anoska Sat, 17 May 2008 09:07:22 +0000 http://www.intomobile.com/2008/05/16/tomtom-gets-nod-to-buy-out-teleatlas.html#comment-219859 [quote]This represents a canny move by TomTom - with the advancement of GPS/Sat Nav on to Mobile devices, anyone in the purely hardware game is going to be facing a tough time - Nokia predicts sales of 35 mn devices with GPS on this year alone![/quote] If you're implying that Nokia would have hard time because of this, you're wrong. Nokia made a similar move last year and purchased Navteq which was actually larger player than Tele Atlas. But you are correct that everyone else than Tom Tom and Nokia are now pretty much screwed, since there is no third player having such a wide coverage map offer. Navteq and Tele Atlas are probably going to continue their sales to 3rd parties, but inevitably in terms of Nokia and Tom Tom. [quote]This represents a canny move by TomTom – with the advancement of GPS/Sat Nav on to Mobile devices, anyone in the purely hardware game is going to be facing a tough time – Nokia predicts sales of 35 mn devices with GPS on this year alone![/quote]

If you’re implying that Nokia would have hard time because of this, you’re wrong. Nokia made a similar move last year and purchased Navteq which was actually larger player than Tele Atlas. But you are correct that everyone else than Tom Tom and Nokia are now pretty much screwed, since there is no third player having such a wide coverage map offer. Navteq and Tele Atlas are probably going to continue their sales to 3rd parties, but inevitably in terms of Nokia and Tom Tom.

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