High Speed Internet Access (HSIA): Mobile Internet

What are we likely to see in the mobile phone marketplace in 2010? Telstra’s director of device management, Richard Fink, has put forward his thoughts on emerging trends in mobile technology for the year ahead.

The main prediction is that 2010 will be the year of the smartphone. More consumers will buy smartphones this year and the estimate is that one in four phones purchased will be smartphones. The good news for consumers is that competition will drive smartphone bargains. New devices will come on the market with more features and at cheaper prices. Android is likely to emerge as a popular operating system for smartphones.

Apps and in particular social media apps will drive the popularity of smartphones with more than 100,000 iPhone apps available from Apple’s iTunes store and the Android store likely to compete strongly. Social media apps are likely to spur further growth in social media services and communities such as Facebook, MySpace and Twitter.

Traffic on Telstra’s Next G mobile network is doubling every 8 months and Fink says that mobile broadband in general will boom in 2010. The development of better, feature packed devices making it easier to access and use the Internet whilst on the go will drive the growth of mobile broadband.

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