Mobile Operators
topic on 2 shows · 4 statements across 4 episodes
How I Built This 
the a16z Podcast
4 statements about Mobile Operators, every show
Zennström: Mobile Roaming Costs Telecoms No More Than Domestic Phone Calls
“Essentially To cost to produce a phone call when, whether you're roaming or not is kind of the same. But it was an opportunity for the phone companies to charge, like, extra money”
Evans: No non-telco company matches Apple's global subscriber scale
“Yeah, mobile operators, global mobile operators have got hundreds of millions. Nobody else is this big on a global scale.”
Evans: Carrier transition to unbundled installment plans did not harm high-end smartphone sales
“And that didn't happen at all. Because actually it's still an installment, and people kind of knew that they were paying an installment for the phone anyway, and people actually still want to get those phones.”
Evans: Network effects do not translate to building smartphone hardware
“In a funny sort of sense, it's like you could be too far up the stack to do this, just as you could be too far down the stack to do this. So just as it doesn't really make sense for a mobile operator or a handset maker to try and build a social network, it doe…”