[Chapter-delegates] Fighting Homelessness, One Smartphone at a Time

[Carlos M. Martinez]

Hi Gihan,

Sure, not a problem. In my country (Uruguay) there are very few service 
offerings that could be considered ‘walled gardens’ (although we 
should have a definition of what a walled garden is if we want to have a 
meaningful exchange on the topic).

The closest thing that I see are offerings of ‘Smartphone with 
Facebook’ or ‘Smartphone with Google’ offerings, but as far as I 
can tell, they haven’t been commercially successful.

cheers!

-Carlos


On 18 Apr 2015, at 11:36, Gihan Dias wrote:

> On 2015-04-17 ප.ව. 7:27, Carlos M. Martinez wrote:
>> The same folk that run "their own" IP over *DSLor FTTH. It's no
>> different. I can run walled gardens on pure simple Ethernet, in fact,
>> most enterprise networks do so.
>>
>> The problem, if there is any, does not lie on technologies, it lies 
>> on
>> business models and business practices.
> Carlos,
>
> I agree. Where I live, telcos have little incentive to run walled 
> gardens, since customers will go away if they do. In other economies, 
> they may make economic sense.
> Could we share our experiences of what type of offereings service 
> providers (not just LTE but any technology) provide in various 
> markets?
>
> Gihan
>
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