Mobile broadband services used by PC owners likely will follow the pattern seen recently in the U.S. mobile phone business, where prepaid payment plans have grown at the expense of postpaid plans.
By 2011, only 40 percent of PC mobile broadband users will be on long-term monthly contracts, says Dean Bubley, Disruptive Analysis principal. Most will use prepaid, casual use or “free” access, he predicts.
In fact, the strongest growth probably will come in the casual use segment.
Thursday, October 1, 2009
Casual Use Biggest PC-Based Mobile Broacband Segment?
Gary Kim has been a digital infra analyst and journalist for more than 30 years, covering the business impact of technology, pre- and post-internet. He sees a similar evolution coming with AI. General-purpose technologies do not come along very often, but when they do, they change life, economies and industries.
Subscribe to:
Post Comments (Atom)
U.S. Cable Operators Will Lose Home Broadband Share, But How Much, and to Whom?
Comcast says it will lose about 100,000 home broadband accounts in the fourth quarter of 2024, a troublesome statistic given that service’s...
-
We have all repeatedly seen comparisons of equity value of hyperscale app providers compared to the value of connectivity providers, which s...
-
It really is surprising how often a Pareto distribution--the “80/20 rule--appears in business life, or in life, generally. Basically, the...
-
One recurring issue with forecasts of multi-access edge computing is that it is easier to make predictions about cost than revenue and infra...
No comments:
Post a Comment