Thursday, October 1, 2009

Casual Use Biggest PC-Based Mobile Broacband Segment?


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.

No comments:

What Declining Industry Can Afford to Alienate Half its Customers?

Some people believe the new trend of major U.S. newspapers declining to make endorsements in presidential races is an abdication of their “p...