IDG Contributor Network: Why Verizon is funding a wireless competitor, Visible

INSUBCONTINENT EXCLUSIVE:
The wireless industry has grown and changed so much over the last few decades
In the last few years, major wireless brands ATT Mobility, T-Mobile and Sprint have introduced or acquired several other brands like
Cricket, MetroPCS, Boost, Virgin Mobile and more
They have focused on winning and growing in different slices of the wireless pie, and it working.Verizon and Verizon Wireless has been quiet
in this space
They tend to take a different route
They are the highest priced wireless service and it looked like things would remain that way
However, now they are doing a deal with Visible that changes all that.I tend to worry about companies when they let the change wave go on
without them
I don&t want the growth wave to pass them by and leave them behind like it did with companies like Blackberry, Nokia and Motorola
Leaders who missed the next change wave and now are struggling.