Friday, August 7, 2009

Amazon and eBay's potential role going forward in wireless - washingtonpost.com

A study recently found that a quarter of mobile phones sold in Western Europe had been purchased online, mostly from Amazon (NSDQ: AMZN) and eBay (NSDQ: EBAY).

The discovery led BusinessWeek to wonder how their role as major retailers could affect "the way carriers and device manufacturers market, subsidize and sell products and services, and how much revenue and profit they receive." The study was conducted by TNS ComTech, which based results on the responses from 60,000 consumers...