Monday, March 17, 2008

Nokia on heaven's door

http://www.ft.com/cms/s/0/8b23f7bc-f0a0-11dc-ba7c-0000779fd2ac.html

Mobile phone will be the market dominante for the wireless internet market?
This article shows a potential scenario of the market evolvement.

Downloading Christina Aguilera videos to your mobile phone is so, like, old. For Nokia, a Mumbai car pooling service powered by text messaging may be a far more telling glimpse of the future.
Mobile phone users are increasingly using their phones to surf the net and send e-mail, rather than just make calls. Improvements in screen sizes and interfaces are prompting a big increase in data usage in developed markets. Yet in the developed world, telecoms operators, rightly, see phone maker Nokia's move into services such as music downloads and maps as a threat.
However, there may be a greater opportunity for the Finnish phone maker in the developing world. In many areas fixed infrastructure is lacking - there is less than one land line available for every hundred Bangladeshis. So for huge numbers of people the first experience of the internet is likely to be through a mobile phone. This suggests a significant market for basic services such as e-mail, as well as one for localised information services, such as finding fellow commuters, or checking fish prices at nearby markets

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