Jonathan MacDonald

I appear to be one of the crowd, and there was my Mum telling me all these years that I was unique ;)

Thanks for a great presentation at FoM (in spite of your BT Openzone travails) though I think someone else might have said that already.

Question for me is how do the mobile operators relinquish their stranglehold over the value chain which is standing in the way of the vision. I can't blame them looking nervously at their shareholders and what happened to the fixed line ISPs and saying "but of course we wouldn't throw away value like that". Problem for the rest of us, is that's what precipitated the last Internet boom.

But then, it's that kind of challenge that gets entrepreneurs up in the morning.

Looking forward to the new slidedeck.

Good question Adam.

I think on one hand we need to appreciate the very significant role the operators play but also see how they best fit in the ACTUAL value chain that isn't tech (or industry) centric.

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Your question is not only valid, its VITAL to answer.....but its going to take a collaborative effort to work out and implement the change.

Hope you are part of it and major thanks for the comment :)

I am part of it, and will continue to be. I haven't worked this long at it not to see the day when the operators finally give us what we need.

This also precipitated my FoM summary blog post, at last, so thanks: http://www.adambird.com/2008/11/future-of-mobil...

I got 20 yesterday which is above average for me
Jof

I can see my name on the list! Enjoyed your presentation at Future of Mobile

thanks mate - really appreciated. :)