A bajillion gajillion thumbs
by Imran Ali
The UK’s Mobile Data Association has just announced that Britons are sending around 1.2 billion messages a week…that’s 25% growth over the previous year! Bundling, ethnographics, B2C messaging and increased enterprise usage are noted as the underlying factors.
Let’s say at an average prices of 5p/message, UK mobile operators would be collectively hauling in just under a quarter of a billion pounds each month!
It’s a crude statistic, but also underlines the inertia in opening up mobility. Why worry about making decisions about developer programmes, open source, unlocked handsets and the like when you can essentially wait it out. Time favours the telcos…
To quote Rainier Wolfcastle…
Jay Sherman: how do you sleep at night?
Rainier: On top of a pile of money, with many beautiful women.
