As usual, the ofcom report released this week has lots of great data. Thanks to Dean Bubley of Disruptive Wireless for pointing this to me
Some interesting insights as per Disruptive wireless:
* Quite a lot of discussion of the resilience of fixed-line comms in the face of the mobile onslaught. Rather than direct fixed-mobile substitution, it appears that the UK sees more mobile-initiated incremental use of voice. Fixed minutes have dropped about 17bn minutes in total over 6 years, but mobile call volumes have risen by 38bn minutes. The UK outbound call total is still around 60/40 fixed:mobile, and 88% of homes still have a fixed line.
* The proportion of mobile-only households has been pretty static for the past few years, currently at 11%. This is considerably lower than elsewhere in Europe (eg 37% in Italy), and is possibly reflecting the prevalence of ADSL. Most mobile-only users are from lower socioeconomic groups.
* 44% of UK a...
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mukuru.com - mcommerce in Africa(Zimbabwe) again ..From: opengardensblog.futuretext.com
Post Date: 2007-05-22 17:53:52
See my broad vision for Mobile and Africa in The Mobile phone will do more for Africa than Live 8!
Simple, practical stories of mobile commerce from Africa continue to be inspiring
Source: the BBC
Mobiles beat Zimbabwe fuel queues
By Lucy Fleming
BBC News website
Shamwari Lucy, Uri bho here? Thanks a bunch for using Mukuru.com
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Text messages from abroad have never been received so eagerly by cash-strapped Zimbabweans.
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more Infosys - Holographic mobile handsetsFrom: opengardensblog.futuretext.com
Post Date: 2008-06-25 16:20:45
With the renewed interest in user interfaces after the launch of the iPhone, this is an interesting announcement from Infosys about the development of Holographic mobile handsets specifically the use of Fourier transforms to compute the third dimension.
As Indian companies become multinationals and grow beyond their traditional domains of expertise, we can expect to see more such developments from innovative Indian companies
Infosys press release here
As per cnet
Holographi...
more Congrats Opera - Opera mobile 9.5 released ..From: opengardensblog.futuretext.com
Post Date: 2008-07-17 14:48:55
Congrats Opera - Opera mobile 9.5 released ..
Great news from a great company .. and many interesting features like Gears and Mobile Ajax - I will do a longer blog later - but for now - kudos to the great guys at Opera ...
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