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[cruecu]

Spitballing here, but it's all about relationships. If Owen had the relationship with Hans, he may have had this meeting set up back in December to help facilitate everything to the other division. Meet with who you know first. I'm sure a Hans recommendation is better than trying to meet directly with the wireless division up front...Especially back in December before a lot of the hype.

[136]

Question for your question,

Why wouldn’t they want their own smartphone?

Verizon selling their own branded phone?

Makes a lot of sense to me.

Just a thought

[malachi310]

Hans Vestberg has EVERYTHING to do with networking and 5G. He's not in charge of Verizon's rotary phones

http://www.verizon.com/about/our-company/hans-vestberg

[Iluvbbs]

Simple.
Buy out ALL potential competition and shelve it?!?!

Remember the famous rumor that a young engineer had designed a carburetor that got like 50 miles to the gallon back in the late 50's and early 60's???
Ford supposedly bought the patent & business from the guy for a hushed up amount of money back then (I want to say it was 5 million which was a fortune in like 1960) and once owned by ford, they basically shelved it.
Gasoline was 15 cents a gallon back then depending on where you lived and I lived on the East Coast.
A 50 MPG carburetor would have destroyed the gasoline market and ford simply could not let that happen........
As the story is told, give or take some details.

It is also a "functional device" for the holding co. so not only might they just buy and shelve, they might buy, shelve, and secretly try to sell a "reverse engineered" product to the competition.
Just because you are a "holding" company does not mean you buy business's to keep under the umbrella, you buy and sell company's, patents, products strategically for what benefits the "Mother-ship" (holding Co.) the best.

Just my 9 cents ..........

The question still remains: If Hans Vestberg works for VERIZON, not VERIZON WIRELESS, what does Verizon want with a smartphone company?