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Looking before you leap on LBS

According to Roy Mark, Nokia's move to acquire Navteq is an aggressive move against GPS manufacturers like Garmin and TomTom. According to others, this move is more of a move to place a wedge between end users/consumers and their network providers (read wireless providers).

Personally, I think this is a good move to protect Nokia on two fronts. The "TomTom"s and "Garmin"s of the world will probably need to re-direct their strategies away from consumer GPS implementations if equivalent location based services (LBS) get a foothold on the mobile handset.

As for attempting to push between end users and wireless providers, I think that wireless providers are doing that all by themselves ( fewest dropped calls my ..... ). Users are becoming more sophisticated every day and soon will break down the walled garden if the walls don't fall all by themselves.

Technorati Tags: Telecommunications, Telecom, Nokia, TomTom, Garmin, GPS, LBS, Location Based Services, Roy Mark

  Posted by jmyers on October 3, 2007 8:00 AM |

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