Tuesday, August 29, 2006

The mobile internet: Are we the there yet?

The mobile internet: Are we the there yet?
1. wireless users are waiting for all the technology pieces to come together to make the surfing the Internet from their handsets as easy as it is on their PC.
2. how close are we to simple and robust web surfing from cell phone
3. once we can get the experience to look and feel more like the traditional Internet, more people are willing to spend their money to pay for the services.
4. while there is still a lot of disagreement over how subscribers should be accessing mobile web sites, there is almost complete agreement that when the mobile Internet finally hits the mainstream adoption, it's going to be big.
5. mobile carriers could generate more than $15 billion in data service for all of 2006. This is almost 75 percent jump from 2005.
6. to date, most of the mobile data growth came from
7. surfing the mobile web has not caught on.
8. the experts say the biggest reason why users aren't using their phones to access web sites is that compared with the traditional Internet, today's the mobile Internet is still rudimentary when it comes to web site quality and ease of navigation.

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