Mobile web-browsing is growing, especially in developing countries, and the sites being visited include more elaborate services.
"In future, most new internet users will be in developing countries and will use mobile phones. Expect a wave of innovation [...] But Ken Banks [... co-chair of W3C's new mobile internet interest group ...] points out that simple services based on text messages are likely to predominate for some time to come, for several reasons. All mobile phones, however cheap, can send text messages. Mobile-web access requires more sophisticated handsets and is not always supported by operators. And users know what it costs to send a text message."
From: The meek shall inherit the web, The Economist Technology Quarterly, 6 Sep 2008, p. 3.
"In future, most new internet users will be in developing countries and will use mobile phones. Expect a wave of innovation [...] But Ken Banks [... co-chair of W3C's new mobile internet interest group ...] points out that simple services based on text messages are likely to predominate for some time to come, for several reasons. All mobile phones, however cheap, can send text messages. Mobile-web access requires more sophisticated handsets and is not always supported by operators. And users know what it costs to send a text message."
From: The meek shall inherit the web, The Economist Technology Quarterly, 6 Sep 2008, p. 3.
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