This may be the case in Japan, but in Europe the situation is different.
One of our clients is a provider of wireless healthcare content (over WAP,
SMS, 3G and PDAs). They've been running since 2000, and whilst their
traffic is significant, it's less than half a million subscribers monthly.
There hasn't been much of a "subscription model" here until recently, so
flat license fees for content have been used by (some) operators: perhaps
this has helped. Multiple channels, particularly SMS, also give you an
opportunity to reach more consumers...
At 13:00 10/06/2003 +0900, Curt Sampson wrote:
>As someone else here pointed out, you need a
>half million subscribers or so to keep a site up and running with a lot
>of content, and the subscriber numbers just aren't there to make many
>companies put in the effort.
--
Future Platforms :: http://www.futureplatforms.com/
t +44 (0) 1273 718030 // m +44 (0) 7971 781422 // e tom@futureplatforms.com
Received on Tue Jun 10 11:09:20 2003