FT.com Report from the 3GSM show in Barcelona - The world in your pocket

Great read:  FT.com / Digital Business / Digital Britain - The world in your pocket.

“In 2009, mobile phone users are expected to download more than 10bn applications to their mobile phones – the majority from sites managed by mobile device manufacturers, consumer electronics firms and software houses.”

"After years of disappointment and false starts, mobile data and the “mobile internet” it enables, finally seems to be taking off. “Global sales of mobile broadband ‘dongles’ [plug-in gadgets that control wireless signals] exceeded 4m a month during 2008 and are expected more than to double in 2009,” says Deloitte. “The resulting stress on networks, particularly backhaul connections, could be significant..."

“We do expect to see a proliferation of music, video and gaming applications being consumed on mobile devices...In all of these cases, next-generation services utilise the broadband networks from the mobile operators, but importantly bring together the capabilities of the communications network and the web to create next-generation experiences"

Marty Beard: “We will see voice over the internet (VoIP), video messaging, streaming, cross-operator presence and other new and innovative services. The expansion towards an all-IP mobile economy has begun.”

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