"Viag is crucial to B.T.'s mobile phone strategy," said Paul Mount, an analyst with Nomura Securities.
"President Obama's strategy is a pay-phone strategy," he said, "and we're a smartphone world".
"I clearly think now there's a calculated phone strategy to disconnect our supporters from us," Mr. Trippi said.
Last week's story on Google's mobile-phone strategy ("What, no phone?", November 10th 2007) wrongly described Google as America's most valuable firm.
'I'm an enigma,' he will say, and lately he has been adding, 'I'm red-hot.' ") But Whitworth does catch a glimpse of Franklin's phone strategy: Joe seems to have four basic types of response to a call.
For Burnett, 40, the day has been a typical, tightly scheduled torrent of interviews and production meetings, culminating in a cell-phone strategy session in the car with his lawyer and manager, Conrad Riggs.
Although Ericsson attributed part of the expected slowdown to a recent fire at an Albuquerque semiconductor plant operated by its main supplier, Royal Philips Electronics, some analysts questioned whether the company's overall mobile phone strategy the last several years was to blame.
The industry is a stool with three legs network service, devices, and the software and content that goes on them and "I don't think any player in the ecosystem trying to glue it all together will be very successful," says Dipchand Nishar, who leads Google's mobile-phone strategy.
(Lanci was tightlipped about Acer's mobile phone strategy. See "Acer Phones Coming Soon").. Netbooks are key to Acer's strategy.
It also underscores the fact that Microsoft is not backing down from its larger Windows Phone strategy.
