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Nokia gets into IM by buying OZ Communications

Started by Ewan · 9 months ago

The beers are on OZ Communications.
Big time.

They’ve just been acquired by The Big N.
Congratulations to all.
This is a move that is sure to get tongues wagging some more — Nokia, becoming an internet company? Oh aye. There are a heck of a lot of benefits ... Continue reading »

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  • Ricky Cadden

    9 months 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.
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  • Ewan

    9 months ago

    Most operators aren't that enlightened.

    IM eats text revenue -- that's the classic viewpoint.
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  • no-jabber

    9 months ago

    why not jabber? too late Nokia, again...
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  • phoneboy

    9 months 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.
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