“Google is planning to offer mobile phone service in coming months, but the limited scale effort won’t be designed to compete with the big carriers,” Aaron Pressman reports for Yahoo Finance.
“Sundar Pichai, Google’s senior vice president of products, on Monday confirmed rumors that Google wanted to resell mobile service, becoming what’s known as a mobile virtual network operator, or MVNO,” Pressman reports. ” Speaking at the Mobile World Congress in Barcelona, Pichai compared the effort to the company’s limited Nexus-branded smartphone sales. ‘We want to be able to experiment along those lines, that’s the concept,’ he said. ‘We don’t intend to be a network operator at scale.'”
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