By Alex Scroxton
20 November 2008
Vodafone-owned business-to-business comms provider Yes
Telecom plans to muscle in on the mobile data market on behalf of IT resellers
with the roll-out of a new series of communications services, including
dedicated account managers, technology training and in-house support.
According to Yes, which was picked up by Vodafone in 2006,
the territory has traditionally been dominated by traditional mobile phone
dealers, but the sub claims it has spotted a gap in the market that IT dealers
can exploit.
Yes sales and marketing head Simon Howitt said that with
growing demand for business IT functions outside normal working hours,
resellers needed to offer mobile data packages alongside their traditional
network implementations, adding that IT resellers had been put off getting into
communications because they had no experience of airtime agreements or call
commission features.
“We expect to see significant demand among businesses of SME
and SOHO level, and IT resellers can make sure
that the revenue from this falls into their hands,” Howitt added.
Meanwhile, mobility stalwart Nokia revealed earlier this
week that it was cutting its forecasts for device shipments across the industry
in 2009. The Finnish communications giant now expects global shipments to drop
to 1.24 billion from 1.26 billion this in 2008 and sees no let-up in the short
term.
In a statement released to the Finnish stock exchange, Nokia
said it anticipated its own Q4 revenues and profits would be negatively
impacted.
