Tuesday, June 18, 2013

Service Providers Hope Ubuntu Will Emerge as a New Smart Phone Operating System

The new Carrier Advisory Group, including EE, Deutsche Telekom, Korea Telecom, telecom Italia, LG UPlus, Portugal Telecom and SK Telecom, aims to help shape the use of Ubuntu as a smart phone operating system.

The CAG is intended to allow mobile operators to help shape Ubuntu’s mobile strategy, leading ultimately to the creation of Ubuntu-based smart phones.

Carriers would prefer not to allow Apple and Android to become too powerful in the device business, as that increases leverage for providers of those handsets, while simultaneously limiting service provider choice and leverage.

The issue is whether there is room in the market for any new operating system. End users and device suppliers will have the ultimate say, no matter what service providers do.

Canonical is sponsoring the Carrier Advisory Group, as part of its own effort to establish a market position for Ubuntu in the smart phone market.

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