| Author |
What will increase the traffic on the gsm/gprs net? |
Hoggi
Joined: Feb 25, 2002
Posts: 118
From: Norway
PM |
HI!
What will increase the traffic on the gsm/gprs net and make us use the phone more and buy more SE phones so SE will gain more money?
Does any of you have a creative idea?? then please come with it!!
|
|
|
Drago
Joined: Jul 04, 2002
Posts: 66
From: Sweden
PM |
I use GPRS more now when I can send MPEG4 video clips from my 7650.
|
Super G
Joined: Mar 07, 2002
Posts: > 500
From: France
PM |
MMS |
jb
Joined: May 21, 2002
Posts: 303
PM |
At present attractive applications are lacking.
Solid advertisement of a well-defined product. The percentage of all phone-users that use gprs/wap is too small to be profitable to a small provider. Therefore most of europes providers need to merge into a few. Those providers will then have a huge market for which they can formulate a product and tailor a set of services.
What we need in europe is something like i-mode. Let me remind you all that the wonder with i-mode IS NOT the technology, but the marketing.
There are several obstacles for something like i-mode in europe:
1) Very few phones out there are gprs/wap enabled
2) people in europe (young in particular) are less inclined to spend huge money on new devices and payment plans then japanese people (just look at all their tech-toys)
3) There are too many too small providers in europe that cost too much money just to stay alive. None of them can afford to spend money on advertisement for mobile applications (i.e. wap-services). All they make money on is phone calls and sms:s.
What we need is a rather large provider with a business model like i-mode; where some of the subscriber fees are distributed to the actual application provider (i.e. a wap-site). Only then will you see good applications.
Obstacles:
1) European governments (the licenses-idiocy, taxes, european commission etc)
2) Language problems
3) Nokia, for not gprs-enabling their low-price phones
(if the kids only knew what kind of applications they're missing out on)
4) Nokia, for leaving wap (and gprs) out of 3310 (same reason as above, but more specific)
[ This Message was edited by: jb on 2002-09-26 21:25 ] |
|
|
Posted: 2002-09-26 10:53
