The number of 365m GBP might be a little overestimated for mobile content
only. The truth is that European consumers (in particular the youth) are
spending lots of money on messaging (SMS), logos and tunes. The unit prices
for logo and tune content in Europe are a factor 5-10 higher than what we
are used to in Japan where deflation has also entered the content industry.
Arjen van Blokland
www.104.com
At 10:02 02/01/21 +0900, you wrote:
>The following financial times article claims that while Europeans don't
>spend money on PC internet contents, "it is a different story for mobile
>phones, with Europeans spending nearly (pounds) 365m last year for mobile
>content." this sounds rather high. does anyone have any more information
>on this?
>
>Mobiles to become route for contents, January 18, 2002
>http://globalarchive.ft.com/globalarchive/article.html?id=020118003943&query
>=mobile+content
>
>Jeff Funk
>
>
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Received on Mon Jan 21 08:22:17 2002