Hey everyone,
As part of my internship I cam across some interesting graphs about how quickly web 2.0 applications are penetrating the market, and how mobile devices are now more than ever being used for data rather than voice.
This first slide shows that Facebook and Youtube are quickly dominating the online usage. This means that produsers are more active than ever in creating content for the web.
This second slid shows how mobile phones are now more than ever being used for data rather than voice.A third thing that I found this morning was an article talking about how ATT has abandoned their unlimited data usage plan and whether or not this could be a trigger for other wireless carriers to do the same. ( http://content.usatoday.com/communities/technologylive/post/2010/07/forecaster-says-end-of-all-you-can-eat-broadband-pricing-poses-threat-to-web-video/1 )
The question then, that we have to ask is: If more and more users are wanting to use their mobile devices for data, and the large Cellular companies are limiting the amount of data that can be sent, how will this apparent conflict be resolved.
Thoughts. . .
Evan. . .
A part of the answer will be wifi enabled phones that connect to available networks without using the cellular infrastructure. That is why even McDonalds is now a "hotspot". A few cities have played with the idea of wireless metropolitan-area-networks (MAN), with access points on telephone poles and such. This seems to freak out the cell providers and the telephone and cable broadband providers.
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