Lead offers vary by segment, in the U.S. or any other communications market. For competitive local exchange carriers, the lead offer long has been a bundle of business broadband access and business voice.
Consumer fixed-line providers have been leading with the triple play of consumer video, voice and broadband access.
Wireless providers might arguably be leading with a device, not so much services. Basically, the "smart phone" now is the lead offer for a wireless provider, with data access, voice and texting becoming features.
More than one-half (55 percent) of US consumers who purchased a new handset in the three-month period ended May 2011 bought a smartphone instead of a feature phone, up from the 34 percent who did so during the same period one year earlier, according to a survey from Nielsen.
Overall, 38 percent of U.S. consumers owned a smartphone as of May 2011, and 62% owned a feature phone. Smart phones as lead offer
Thursday, November 10, 2011
Smart phones Now the "Lead Offer"
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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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