The mobile industry is loaded with future expectations and hopes that the emerging technologies will bring new dimensions into existing services. Application developers are looking forward to enhanced terminals with more data processing power and built-in security features. Mobile operators upgrade their networks in order to offer value added services to the customers. This way, everybody in the mobile Internet value chain is affected by the new technology.
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The mobile industry is characterized by a fast innovation cycle
Sunday, February 22nd, 2009Business model and revenue sources
Sunday, February 22nd, 2009The business models of mobile commerce providers have different success factors than the companies operating in the fixed Internet environment. Typically, mobile commerce is characterized by value added services and multi-channel strategies combining several medias together. The provider of mobile commerce has to use fixed Internet, TV, radio and print media in order to overcome the limitations in screen size and character input methods. Therefore, some of the early movers are going to be entertainment companies and other content providers which have multiple channels for information provisioning. Therefore, the mobile terminal can be used as a time critical and location independent tool for making a transaction. Because it is personal device, a mobile phone or a PDA is an ideal instrument for payments and other transactions.
Difference between the fixed and the mobile Internet: Form factory
Sunday, February 22nd, 2009Fixed Internet is used primarily for email, entertainment and getting information about a particular point of interest. Typically, the user has a screen of 17 inches and a network connection providing data with a speed ranging from 56 Kbit/s to several megabits. The computer is likely to have more processing power than needed in order to use the services available in the Internet. In addition, most of the information can be saved on a hard disk to be used later, while offline. The user has two devices in order to give commands to the computer; a keyboard and a mouse. Reading news and communicating with friends is easy with the equipment described above. (more…)
