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| Subject: | Re: MobileLBSList: mCommerce Report |
| Date: |
11/28/2000 02:09:48 PM |
| From: |
Gerhard Fasol |
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Laura McGurdy wrote:
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> "The report found the U.S. leads the way in purchases through mobile phones
> while Europe is ahead in banking, although no figures were collated."
You need to keep in mind that today:
80% of the world's mobile internet users are in Japan and
12% of the world's mobile internet users are in Korea.
Therefore any study about mcommerce restricted to US and Europe is
studying only 8% of today's mobile internet users.
One could argue that these 8% might not be representative of what's going
to come in mcommerce in the future, because these 8% are concentrated
in those areas of the world where the wireless internet uptake is very
slow due to various factors. These same factors also might bias any
report studying the behavior of these 8%.
On the other hand in Japan and Korea - where you have 92% of the world's
wireless internet users today - the wireless internet uptake is very strong,
and the technical systems and business models in place are different.
My personal opinion is that the behavior of approx. 23 million wireless
internet
users in Japan & Korea is more predictive about what's going to happen in
Europe and USA in the future, then the 2 to 3 million _active_ users you
have in Europe and USA now.
... just my 2 cents.
Gerhard Fasol
Eurotechnology Japan K. K.
http://www.eurotechnology.com/
fasol@eurotechnology.com
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