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Mobile Industry Review: Nokia gets into IM by buying OZ Communications

  • Ricky Cadden · 1 year ago
    Why would carriers *not* want to have a full-featured IM client installed out of the box? Most of them already have that, as evidenced by OZ's currently partnerships. If nothing else, this will benefit consumers and carriers, because consumers with unbranded devices will now have an easily-justified reason to spring for that higher data package - out of the box.
  • Ewan · 1 year ago
    Most operators aren't that enlightened.

    IM eats text revenue -- that's the classic viewpoint.
  • no-jabber · 1 year ago
    why not jabber? too late Nokia, again...
  • phoneboy · 1 year ago
    The important thing about Oz not to overlook is that the Oz client is embedded into a lot of S40 phones already. This makes it possible to extend their service offerings into the S40 handsets, which is where the volume is.