Hong Kong and Denmark are top performers in mobile and Internet t...
Hong Kong and Denmark are top performers in mobile and Internet technologies and are best poised to take advantage of new developments in convergence, ITU said. ITU’s mobile/Internet index is part of research report on “Internet for a Mobile…
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Generation.” Report looks at performance of more than 200 economies, ITU said. Determining which ones will prove most fertile to development of mobile Internet isn’t easy, ITU said. Countries with high usage of mobile services may not have good Internet penetration, and vice versa, it said, or countries with most potential in terms of infrastructure development might be most closed to foreign investment. Several market trends will enable growth of mobile Internet, ITU said: (1) Timely deployment of high- speed 3G networks. (2) Available, affordable Internet- enabled handsets. (3) Development of unrestricted and nonproprietary mobile Internet content. “Individually, mobile communications and the Internet have been the 2 major drivers of consumer demand for telecommunications services in the last decade of the twentieth century,” said Tim Kelly, head of ITU’s strategy & policy unit. Together, they should be “one of the major demand drivers” of new century, he said. However, he said, while it takes “no great leap of imagination to believe that the convergence of mobile communications and the Internet will produce something big, it may take longer than we think.”