We might be at saturation levels for handsets, and smartphones might be increasingly attractive to consumers, and networks might be getting faster, but none of that is translating into high-end application use. That must be a little disappointing for ARPU-hungry operators.
An Accenture Research survey found that 80 percent of U.S. consumers don’t use phones or any other mobile device for gaming, e-mail or video. So despite all the conversation within our industry about such whiz-bang fun stuff, lay people aren’t drinking the Kool-Aid yet.
