Big Bell Dogma: July 2007
As we work to build mobility into every product, service, and process, our greatest inhibitor is the mindset represented by those who defend the tethering of products and processes to specific places. This mindset is fueled by the investments that have been made that establish power in the companies, departments, and individuals that stand in the way of mobilizing our lives and our businesses. These investments are not always in hard assets, but often are investments of time and experience to establish intellectual and relational assets. We should expect our assault on these “fixed” ways to be defended to the death. Here are recent examples:
- Monopolists making it hard on customers
- Incumbents influencing politicians
- Forcing less-economically attractive regulations on wireless while protecting monopoly economics on wireline networks
- Playing games with wireline-wireless interconnections
- Regulators bash the wireless industry
- “If AT&T ran the highway system”
- Regulatory hurdles for entrepreneurs
Complete list here.
(For more context, read the Mobile Declaration of Independence.)