Mr. Ian Wood
Partner, Wireless Foundry
Member of the Telecommunications Council
Council Member Biography
Ian Wood is the Founding Partner of Wireless Foundry, a telecom and IT consultancy founded in 1998. His clients include France Telecom/Orange, SonyEricsson, Vodafone, Openwave and Qualcomm. He was among the first employees of Motorola Cellular Communications in Europe, where he joined in 1985, and rose to the position of GM Finance Europe for their cellular subscriber business. He spent three years at McKinsey & Company in their Wireless group. After that he joined Cable & Wireless' Wireless Strategy Group, and finally founded his twelve-man consultancy in 1998. He is frequently interviewed by the Financial Times and the BBC about Fixed Mobile Convergence, UMA and Wireless issues including M-Commerce. He is knowledgeable in the mobile enterprise space, 4G wireless ultrawide band, the cable space (including the DT divestiture of cable), and the handset space. He works with IXI mobile, Symbian, and the GSM Association as well as SE and Qualcomm. His recent projects have included a review of the European market for HDTV and Mobile TV in particular for Broadcast and Mobile Network Operators; Voice based services within IP telephony for European Telecoms Company and Integration Strategy for European Mobile Operator following recent acquisition. (This is me - Update Profile)
Employment History
- 1996 - Unspecified
- Partner, Wireless Foundry
GLG NewsSM Analyses by Ian Wood
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The rise of Microsoft's view on Mobile Web at Vodafone.T
September 27, 2009
Vodafone updates internet portal services with Vodafone 360 | www.telecompaper.com
The launch of Vodafone360 is the latest indicator of Peter Knook's influence on Vodafone since his joining from Microsoft 18 months ago. Vodafone Internet Services are now trying to present a consumer face for Vodafone that sees it capable of utilising investment in 3G and 3.5G Mobile Broadband.The interesting element is that this will be the first two handsets in Europe that use the LiMo standard. One from Samsung and one from Huawei.
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July 7, 2009
Orange and even O2 may bid against Vodafone for T-Mobile UK | www.rethink-wireless.com
Whilst the UK has two more mobile networks than it needs the big three all know that they would be helping it's closest rivals in removing the two small players. If T-Mobile were to be sold to a rival the actions of the Regulator are not know at this time but some action is expected. The best case is that the new owner would be expected to return the 3G license and spectrum the worse is that both 2 & 3G spectrum is handed over. Has T-Mobile put the business up for sale? The present book value for the business is some €3B following the write down at the start of the year. Since that time T-Mobile has seen a decline in revenues in the UK and a loss of business caused by the fact that they have been working without a CEO or CMO and so have been following the German strategy. This has further lowered the value of the business.
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July 15, 2008
Mobile Payment Transactions Will Grow, Research Shows | www.billingworld.com
Whilst the US has seen an explosion in Mobile Banking it is yet to see the users trust the service for Payments. Payments needs to address not just the Banked but the Unbanked, in Africa Vodafone and MTN have established services that allow micropayments to be made to those that have no Bank Accounts. The ability to make person-to-person payments is something that sees the service grow. Qualcomms Firethorn service whilst signing a number of contracts is yet to launch. This service uses a Java Applet rather than SMS and Browser based technology to allow users to access multiple banks rather than a single bank. This thus should enable a better uptake of Payments rather than Banking Services. The Stakeholders in the Mobile Banking world are moving towards a mobile wallet that uses NFC based technology to allow users to "wave and pay".
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July 4, 2008
European 3G subscriptions seen topping 100 million | www.reuters.com
The market is still fragmented. In the big five we still see a wide spread of take up as consumers are yet to be won over. The mobile networks are still to discover a range of products that make the investment pay off. This talks about terminals rather than handsets and so a slowing of sales of phones is offset by a boom in USB Mobile Broadband Devices.
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June 25, 2008
Motorola Impresses With 5-Megapixel Camera Phone | www.informationweek.com
This is something that they should have launched 12 months ago. Failing that then we should have seen it in February at GSM World. The design is dated and the technology is out of date. This new handset is not going to have Networks placing orders outside of the US. At best this gets a C for effort.
GLG Study Groups with Ian Wood(?)
| Study Group Name | No. Members |
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| TMT Council Members in Member Programs | 18301 |
| Telecom Infrastructure & Equipment Experts | 4060 |
| Telecommunications Council Members in Member Programs | 3775 |
| Online Payment Experts | 785 |
| Semiconductor & Component Experts | 713 |
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