People Still Use Mobile Phones For Phone Calls

Even as more smartphones are selling in the market, an awful lot of them are still used exclusively as phones, with the owner never bothering to make use of any of the data services.

To really drive on-the-go data into the mass market in 2007, phone companies need to cut prices and simplify services, analysts say. But it's not clear how ready the North American telecoms are to do that, given that the nascent market is growing well and awarding fat profits.

In Canada, mobile data use is in the early stages. In terms of who is using data services “very frequently,” about 15 per cent said they text message, 11 per cent download ring tones, 7 per cent use e-mail, 3 per cent download music, and 3 per cent said they watch TV or video, according to a recent IDC poll survey of 4,640 people.

read more on these market expectations in Globeandmail.com Technology

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