{"id":121,"date":"2008-03-03T23:43:00","date_gmt":"2008-03-03T23:43:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/vhirsch.wordpress.com\/2008\/03\/03\/bye-bye-fixed-line\/"},"modified":"2008-03-03T23:43:00","modified_gmt":"2008-03-03T23:43:00","slug":"bye-bye-fixed-line","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/vhirsch.com\/blog\/2008\/03\/03\/bye-bye-fixed-line\/","title":{"rendered":"Bye bye, fixed line&#8230;"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/3.bp.blogspot.com\/_krrmJx627x4\/R8yPKt0CvSI\/AAAAAAAABlU\/Hhy20dLhAas\/s1600-h\/phones_many.jpg\"><img decoding=\"async\" style=\"float:left;cursor:pointer;width:195px;height:146px;margin:0 10px 10px 0;\" src=\"http:\/\/3.bp.blogspot.com\/_krrmJx627x4\/R8yPKt0CvSI\/AAAAAAAABlU\/Hhy20dLhAas\/s320\/phones_many.jpg\" alt=\"\" border=\"0\" \/><\/a>I mean, it&#8217;s nothing new as us mobilists knew it all along but now, alas, someone put their finger in the air and quantified it. So <a href=\"http:\/\/www.cellular-news.com\/story\/29649.php?source=newsletter\">here<\/a> goes: as early as next year, wireless phone users will outnumber landline users by 3 to 1. Impressive, huh?<\/p>\n<p>Some more somewhat obvious findings are: rich nations are running out of non-users, and in some emerging markets, where rising personal incomes have made wireless affordable, that gap closes quickly, too. Even so, only half the world&#8217;s population uses mobile phones now. Most subscriber growth over the next five years will quite naturally come from India, China, parts of Asia, and Africa. I think the author might have forgotten Brazil&#8230;<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/3.bp.blogspot.com\/_krrmJx627x4\/R8yPVt0CvTI\/AAAAAAAABlc\/9aK4G_7_Vsc\/s1600-h\/dollarsign.jpg\"><img decoding=\"async\" style=\"float:right;cursor:pointer;width:100px;height:100px;margin:0 0 10px 10px;\" src=\"http:\/\/3.bp.blogspot.com\/_krrmJx627x4\/R8yPVt0CvTI\/AAAAAAAABlc\/9aK4G_7_Vsc\/s320\/dollarsign.jpg\" alt=\"\" border=\"0\" \/><\/a>And now, dear content lovers, comes the candy: the analysts say that &#8220;[f]irms must boost their average monthly revenue per user, or ARPU. Text-messaging has been the biggest moneymaker, along with ring tones and games. Music and video downloads are starting to catch on&#8221;. By 2011, U.S. carriers will garner 35% of service revenue from data products, more than twice the 2007 share, says the Telecommunications Industry Association.<\/p>\n<p>But in emerging markets, non-voice services are growing, too: &#8220;Wireless companies need to evolve their business models because of the changing nature of the industry, not just penetration levels,&#8221; said Sureyya Ciliv, chief executive of Turkcell. &#8220;Communication and information technologies are converging globally.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I mean, it&#8217;s nothing new as us mobilists knew it all along but now, alas, someone put their finger in the air and quantified it. So here goes: as early as next year, wireless phone users will outnumber landline users by 3 to 1. Impressive, huh? Some more somewhat obvious findings are: rich nations are [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_feature_clip_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2},"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false},"categories":[],"tags":[57,212,302,337,391,398,402,632,699],"class_list":["post-121","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","tag-arpu","tag-fixed-line","tag-industry-outlook","tag-landline","tag-mobile","tag-mobile-content","tag-mobile-data","tag-telecommunications","tag-voice"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/paSwZv-1X","jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/vhirsch.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/121","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/vhirsch.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/vhirsch.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/vhirsch.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/vhirsch.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=121"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/vhirsch.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/121\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/vhirsch.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=121"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/vhirsch.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=121"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/vhirsch.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=121"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}