Vodafone CEO: ‘Nobody can take customer relationship from us”

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Interesting opinions on Google-Phone.com

http://www.google-phone.com/vodafone...m-us-19157.php

Far be it from us to suggest that too much cellphone use addles the brain, but Vodafone CEO Arun Sarin seems to have taken leave of his senses with a belligerent and crowing outcry against the prospect of Android and Google’s gPhones wading into the cellular market. In an interview [registration required] predominantly concerning Sarin’s opinion of the iPhone (unsurprisingly he wasn’t all that impressed at the device, which is available exclusively on arch-rival UK network O2) the Vodafone boss described the “unique gift” of the billing relationship between carrier and consumer:

“The simple fact that we have the customer and billing relationship is a hugely powerful thing that nobody can take away from us” Arun Sarin, CEO, Vodafone

Mr Sarin has been an outspoken critic of Android and its potential for industry revolution, although up until now he has relied on dismissing the need and nature of a gPhone platform rather than emphasising the powerful role of carriers as a stumbling block for Google’s open-access plans.

“What is it that is missing in life that they are going to fulfil? It is not a no-brainer. You can reach Google already through a number of devices. You don’t need a Google phone to do that” Arun Sarin, CEO, Vodafone

The Register takes great delight in picking apart Sarin’s sweeping claims of operator dominance, citing customer relations with third-party content, service and software providers as well as the advanced use of technical features such as Assisted-GPS. “Whoever comes into the marketplace is going to have to work through us” may have been a truism five years ago, they say, but such an arrangement is in sharp decline.

[deserttopping]

that man is a complete tool.

[Jet]

Must have been a graduate of old school dictatorship school, living in his own dictatorship globe of world domination.