ISYS 3215 Lecture Notes - Lecture 1: Mobile Virtual Network Operator, Android One, Project Loon
8 May 2016
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Project loon hopes to bring internet access underserved areas: balloons that float over. Project fi offers low cost mobile data plans. Gives out android systems: take over every aspect of your life. A wireless telecommunications services provider that doesn"t own its own infrastructure. Instead, mvnos pay a reduced price to license capacity from other providers and repackage the service under their own brand. Walled gardens - a closed network or single set of services controlled by one dominant firm. Term is often applied to mobile carriers that act as gatekeepers, screening out hardware providers and software services from their networks. Goal is to make a huge tech company feel like a start up. Alphabet is a new corporate structure that makes several of the company"s divisions subsidiaries. Monumental move ambitious and charges up industries. Pushing the android one, cheap smartphone to africa. Reduce smartphone hardware costs by identifying components that will be used and pre qualifying suppliers for the parts.
