Whats next in game for Nokia-2

As mentioned in my post below, Nokia seem to be real serious about MVNO biz
Nokia To Launch Luxury Brand Vertu MVNO In Japan

http://www.moconews.net/entry/419-nokia-to-launch-luxury-vertu-brand-mvno-in-japan/

Whats next in game for Nokia

I would not be surprised if Nokia is planning an MVNO in India. They clearly meet criteria for MVNO biz.. strong brand name, leader in handset market in fastest groing wireless market- India, leader in equipment vendor in India with strong clients like Airtel and strong sales channel till Tier2-3 cities in India.
With TRAI having already floated recommendations on MVNO, players are busy designing their strategy including European player like Elisa

It is evident that focus in telecom will clealry shift to application rather than just network as was case in last decade. Technology evolution is not the only innovation in telecom space now. With VAS growing at expotential pace, it is quite a lucrative market for equipment vendors to avoid.
Moreover, equipment market space has already seen growth in services as a method to remain competitive. Nokia is currently in managed services deal for more than 13 circles in India with Airtel and working to gain more of such deals.

I see Nokia expanding is foot towards the application layer and positioning itself more towards end customer. The more they are able to increase mindshare with end-customer, better are their prosppects of becoming preferred alliance partner with operators in the geo. Notebook venture as per the news, seems one such attempt as an extension of thier strategy. With production units across geos, they can surly leverage economies of scale.
Moreover, Post IBM -Lenono deal, there has been a lot of change in market share game in notebook world.

Net-Net, I see Nokia expanding its presence from just being a leader in enterprise space in telecom world and expanding its foothold with end customer because, that the next field where next big games are going to player in telecom world

Symbian goes open source

Symbian is world's leading mobile OS. It was formed as a constorium with members like AT&T LG Electronics Motorola Nokia NTT DoCoMo Samsung Electronics Sony Ericsson STMicroelectronics Texas Instruments Vodafone.

Nokia actively adopted Symbian as their preferred OS and by the time Microsoft came into picture, Symbian had gained major market share of close to 70 % in smartphones.

Now, Nokia has acquired most of Symbian stake for around $264mn and it has plans to take it as open source platform.

I see this as learning of Nokia to increase its market share and also preferred platform in competitive scenario. Mobile OS market is clearly getting new OS and with Microsoft al set to make a dent in high end smartphone segment, Nokia moves strong strategic.

It is getting all leading development vendors and operators under one roof under the shadow of open source message. Although I feel only a part of Symbian will be open source, but not all module will be open for developers.

Symbian -Nokia ia growing fast with 3, Mexico-based America Movil and Brazil's TIM Participacoes, Marvell, Aplix, EB, EMCC Software, Sasken and TietoEnator have also endorsing the foundation.