{"id":6027,"date":"2007-10-30T17:45:56","date_gmt":"2007-10-30T17:45:56","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blog.tmcnet.com\/blog\/rich-tehrani\/e-commerce\/verizon-google-discuss-partnership.html"},"modified":"2007-10-30T17:45:56","modified_gmt":"2007-10-30T17:45:56","slug":"verizon-google-discuss-partnership","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blog.tmcnet.com\/blog\/rich-tehrani\/technology\/verizon-google-discuss-partnership.html","title":{"rendered":"Verizon, Google Discuss Partnership"},"content":{"rendered":"<div style=\"MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt\">How does Verizon fight back against the Apple iPhone and AT&amp;T network? Simple&hellip; They call Google and discuss partnering with the world&rsquo;s leading search engine in order to come up with a device which will potentially take some share from Apple.<\/div>\n<div style=\"MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt\">&nbsp;<\/div>\n<div style=\"MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt\">The Wall Street Journal is <a href=\"http:\/\/online.wsj.com\/article\/SB119377870431576706.html?mod=gadgets_primary_hs_lt\">reporting<\/a> that talks are underway but nothing solid has come of them.<\/div>\n<div style=\"MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt\">&nbsp;<\/div>\n<div style=\"MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt\">It seems that Verizon will be responsible for hardware and Google will supply the software. In addition there will be an advertising split of some sort.<\/div>\n<div style=\"MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt\">&nbsp;<\/div>\n<div style=\"MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt\">According to the WSJ, one concern held by Verizon is whether the device will be secure enough.<\/div>\n<div style=\"MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt\">&nbsp;<\/div>\n<div style=\"MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt\">My take? This device will have to be as slick and integrated as the iPhone to make any sort of dent in the market. Alternatively if Google subsidizes the telephone&rsquo;s monthly service fees in exchange for users agreeing to see ads, all bets are off.<\/div>\n<div style=\"MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt\">&nbsp;<\/div>\n<div style=\"MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt\">This could happen. I could see Verizon with their superior US wireless coverage forgoing some subscription revenue in exchange for the lucrative potential upside of wireless advertising.<\/div>\n<div style=\"MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt\">&nbsp;<\/div>\n<div style=\"MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt\">This is certainly a story which is developing quickly and worth watching closely.<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>How does Verizon fight back against the Apple iPhone and AT&amp;T network? Simple&hellip; They call Google and discuss partnering with the world&rsquo;s leading search engine in order to come up with a device which will potentially take some share from Apple. &nbsp; The Wall Street Journal is reporting that talks are underway but nothing solid<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":44,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[158,172,163,118,191,175],"tags":[],"post_mailing_queue_ids":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.tmcnet.com\/blog\/rich-tehrani\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6027"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.tmcnet.com\/blog\/rich-tehrani\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.tmcnet.com\/blog\/rich-tehrani\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.tmcnet.com\/blog\/rich-tehrani\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/44"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.tmcnet.com\/blog\/rich-tehrani\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=6027"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/blog.tmcnet.com\/blog\/rich-tehrani\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6027\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.tmcnet.com\/blog\/rich-tehrani\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=6027"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.tmcnet.com\/blog\/rich-tehrani\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=6027"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.tmcnet.com\/blog\/rich-tehrani\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=6027"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}