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Interview: Dan Dooley of Sprint
09 November 2009
The machines are coming to boost Sprint’s mobile services business, says Dan Dooley
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Dan Dooley: machine-to-machine solutions will
generate lower ARPUs, but there will be millions
of applications
Sprint provides the US mobile connection to
Amazon’s Kindle e-reader
Dan Dooley is looking forward to providing mobile services not for people but for machines.
Some of the machines will be used by people — to monitor their health, to check their children or to feed their e-readers with news — but they won’t be what we know today as mobile phones.
And for Dooley, the president of Sprint Wholesale Solutions, that means a whole new set of markets for the company he has worked for since 1996.
“Of course, machine-to-machine solutions will generate lower ARPUs,” concedes Dooley: each of them will produce less revenue for Sprint than a conventional human user with a smart phone or a 3G dongle.
But there’ll be so many of them that the result will be good for...
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