Telstra has revealed the addition of almost one million new mobile services in the six months to December 2011, but Sensis revenues plummeted 24 percent in 12 months.
Also in the US this week Motorola released the results of a survey of
consumer perceptions of WiMAX. And a curious beast it was, because
Motorola did not explain how the questions were framed. WiMAX of course
is a technology, not a service, so it seems strange to ask what service
they would use a particular technology for when other technologies
could do the job equally well.
However, Motorola tells us that "the survey of
601 US Internet-using households was conducted by Centris through a
national telephone omnibus survey between May 9-15, 2007. The margin of
error for the survey is +4 percent.
For Motorola the focus was very much on mobility. WiMAX was defined to
survey respondents as being able to be used while walking or travelling
in a car, cab, bus or train, and the Internet connectivity it provided
to have the connection speeds of cable or DSL, but with the mobility
and roaming of today's cellular networks.
The consumer survey of Internet users showed that in a mobile setting:
nearly half of all those responding would likely use WiMAX to read or
respond to e-mail; 31 percent would read or view "live," real-time
online media; 28 percent would enjoy mobile entertainment, such as
interactive, on demand, mobile TV; and, Another 28 percent said they
would use WiMAX to download and listen to music. For business users,
there was even more emphasis on mobility. Optus must surely know this
sort of stuff, but one wonders did the Government?
Austar and Unwired were/are categorically planning mobile WiMAX
services. Opel's thinking is, well, opaque. We are not getting the full
story and it is clear from information coming out of the world's most
develop WiMAX market that the emphasis is on mobility.
David Bass
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