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Nokia’s coopetition with carriers

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However what is interesting is that Nokia is offering this service through an acquisition they recently made. In other words, from a business model perspective, Nokia is going directly after the end consumer and encroaching on precious data and subscription revenue of their carrier partners. million tracks.

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Mobile Payments: The Trillion Dollar Industry That's Never - AgileVC

Agile VC

But while it was a little less understood outside the payments world, their acquisition of TxVia theoretically gives them some of the plumbing they’d need to create a store of value or couple a Google mobile payments product to existing financial accounts. The product seemingly never evolved to what it could have been.

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