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Tuesday, September 19, 2006
The ubiquitous mobile phone
The Mobile Life Youth Report by The Carphone Warehouse reveals some interesting facets of young peoples' (10 to 17?) use of mobile phones:
* 51% of 10 year olds have a mobile phone
* 91% of 12 year olds have a mobile phone
* More texting than talking
* On average 10 messages per day
* Way to communcate without parents' knowledge
* Increasingly used as a dating device
I believe there's still a big opportunity for providing mobile IM and better ways to handle SMS and MMS. Just recently 3 offered MSN chat as the key selling point for signing up to a new subscription. As I've said before, mobile IM is way more important than mobile video/TV, and if operators want to make money from it, they can. And they don't have to upgrade their networks either to handle it.
More than 90 percent of British children have a cell phone - Yahoo! News
There seems to be a similar pattern in USA:
QuicklyBored » Blog Archive » Let’s Talk Survey
* 51% of 10 year olds have a mobile phone
* 91% of 12 year olds have a mobile phone
* More texting than talking
* On average 10 messages per day
* Way to communcate without parents' knowledge
* Increasingly used as a dating device
I believe there's still a big opportunity for providing mobile IM and better ways to handle SMS and MMS. Just recently 3 offered MSN chat as the key selling point for signing up to a new subscription. As I've said before, mobile IM is way more important than mobile video/TV, and if operators want to make money from it, they can. And they don't have to upgrade their networks either to handle it.
More than 90 percent of British children have a cell phone - Yahoo! News
There seems to be a similar pattern in USA:
QuicklyBored » Blog Archive » Let’s Talk Survey
