{"id":200683,"date":"2010-01-19T21:30:29","date_gmt":"2010-01-20T02:30:29","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/jkontherun.com\/?p=54379"},"modified":"2010-01-19T21:30:29","modified_gmt":"2010-01-20T02:30:29","slug":"the-quarter-in-mobile-%e2%80%94-key-points-i-missed","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/200683","title":{"rendered":"The Quarter in Mobile \u2014 Key Points I Missed"},"content":{"rendered":"

\"\"<\/a>The last quarter of 2009 was breathtaking<\/em> in terms of pace for the mobile market. Most of what happened, I either read about or covered in my writing. But somehow, I missed some key bits that I just picked up in the latest GigaOm Pro Quarterly Wrap-Up on Mobile<\/a> (subscription required). In the 28 page PDF for example, I learned that Canadian and U.S. consumers account for 1.3 cellular connections per user on average. Here I thought I was in the minority with multiple handsets — then again, I’m still ahead of the curve with three phones, one USB stick for 3G and an Amazon Kindle. ;) <\/p>\n

I also didn’t realize how much of a data disparity the iPhone caused during the last three months of 2009<\/a>. Cellular carriers with an iPhone \u00a0on the network see 52 percent of their data traffic coming from smartphones. Those without an iPhone in the stable only see 4 percent of their data on smartphones. While I knew that iPhone users were data-driven consumers, I had no idea that the device drove data demand by more than ten-fold.<\/p>\n

And what about 4G networks like WiMAX from Clearwire? I recall that the company secured more funding to build out its national WiMAX network, but I overlooked a key SEC company filing. Clearwire essentially has to make WiMAX work because it’s barred from switching over to LTE deployment until November, 2011<\/a>. By that time, Verizon Wireless will have dozens of LTE markets on-line<\/a>, so WiMAX looks like an all or nothing deal right now.<\/p>\n

Between these tidbits, the rising momentum of Android, cell plan battles<\/a> and more people jumping onto social networks while mobile, the quarter left me out of breath. With new phone platforms<\/a> and more powerful processors, it already looks like 2010 is picking up where 2009 left off!<\/p>\n

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The last quarter of 2009 was breathtaking in terms of pace for the mobile market. Most of what happened, I either read about or covered in my writing. But somehow, I missed some key bits that I just picked up in the latest GigaOm Pro Quarterly Wrap-Up on Mobile (subscription required). In the 28 page […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":670,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[7],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-200683","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/200683","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/670"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=200683"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/200683\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=200683"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=200683"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=200683"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}