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.
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