Last year, I wrote an entry which looked at AdMob’s monthly Mobile Metrics report and concluded that smart phone platforms from Nokia, RIM and Windows Mobile had a higher share of ads served compared to that of Apple’s iPhone. I pointed out that this was not consistent with the browsing market share numbers reported by [...]
Entries from April 2009
April 12, 2009
Is Mobile Broadband Profitable?
The consensus opinion is certainly that mobile broadband is not a profitable business (yet) in Western Europe (especially in countries like UK) where mobile broadband prices are trending lower than fixed broadband prices. I have always wanted to do a quantitative analysis.
The analyst firm Informa claims that fixed-line costs in Europe are near Eurocent 0.1-0.5 per [...]
