Google in mobile and wireless: Analysing the impact and assessing the threat of the search giant’s market entry

Gogle in mobile and wireless: Analysing the impact and assessing the threat of the search giant’s market entry

Visiongain: Google, the world’s most popular search engine, is continuing its business growth and is starting to push into the mobile and wireless markets with increasing focus. The company, synonymous with web searching, sees the mobile and wireless sectors as highly important areas for growth as more users will be accessing the internet through these mediums. With a company like Google, known for its innovation, user-friendliness and market challenging approach, any moves into a related industry must be closely examined, monitored and analysed by those already in the industry. In this report, visiongain explores Google’s strategy in both mobile and wireless in the medium-term future, and discusses the significant opportunities and threats that the company poses to current industry players.

How will Google affect your operations? Should you be working with the company to leverage its expertise in search and other related services? Or will Google’s products disrupt your business? Either way, you need to assess how its entry will impact the mobile and wireless industries.

With a number of specific and beta-phase, mobile search product offerings, Google has already entered the mobile and wireless sectors. This product development is set to grow, and with a serious marketing and collaborative push the search giant could have a significant impact on the current status quo in these markets.

Google Mobile is the company’s own offering to the mobile/cellular world, allowing the usage of Google’s internet search engine on mobile devices. More products are being introduced to Google Mobile, including access to Gmail, an SMS query service and Local Search options. As the advertising-led product offerings are free, Google can already be seen as a threat to some mobile content providers. With mobile operators outsourcing content production and portal management, how do the services offered by Google fit with the key product areas provided to subscribers already? How can operators and manufacturers make the most of this?

The company has already partnered with operators, including Vodafone and T-Mobile, and manufacturers, including Motorola and Sony Ericsson, to provide Google search and is becoming more heavily involved in product development for the mobile market. Which service areas will Google focus on? Where do new mobile services fit with Google’s existing strengths? What are the implications of Google’s partnerships with operators and manufacturers? Which operators or manufacturers will benefit most from a deal with Google? And which stand to lose the most? By purchasing this report, you will find the answers to these questions.

In addition to cellular, Google has also made some interesting moves into the Wi-Fi market too. The company provides free wireless coverage to its hometown of Mountain View in Silicon Valley, and has also combined with ISP Earthlink to win the bid for Municipal Wi-Fi coverage of nearby San Francisco. In this deal, Google will offer free wireless coverage to the city. With Google already offering its own VoIP service, Google Talk, this report shows how the company can be considered a threat to US mobile and fixed operators. Do you know what other moves Google has made towards this end? How will this affect your business? What would be the implications if Google adopted the first wide-scale Wireless Virtual Network Operator model? http://www.visiongainintelligence.com/reportDetail.aspx?reportId=1286&adSelection=Y&industryIdL1=1003