According to Bloomberg, Google may be looking to get into the mobile phone service business. They want to team up with smaller providers to create its own network.

Instead of starting their own network from scratch, they plan on buying existing networks to build up their own. This is a smart way of doing it so Google can rely on the expertise and knowledge of the companies it purchases and partners with along the way.

It’s no surprise that Google wants to move into this space as there’s a lot of money being made by other network providers such as AT&T and Verizon. It’s also a good move because then Google will be able to add on its software to these phone’s and other mobile devices to attract new clients and retain existing ones as well.

The article goes on to say that this will foster competition between wireless providers. I think that’s a great way of doing business because it will allow for better products and cheaper service. This is the reason that competition is good.

It will be interesting to see what Google names their wireless service. My recommendations: GoogleAir, GoogleTalk, or gPhone.

What do you think?

Discuss this post in the CEO Consultant forum, or leave a comment below.

If you have found this site helpful, please consider leaving a donation for support.

Return to Home Page

This entry was posted on Monday, July 23rd, 2007 at 2:30 pm and is filed under Business. You can follow any responses to this entry through the RSS 2.0 feed. You can leave a response, or trackback from your own site.