High Speed Internet Access (HSIA): Mobile Internet

Netbooks are taking market share from notebooks. This has been known for awhile with the huge surge in demand for netbooks worldwide. The figures are in now from DisplaySearch, a market research firm and they say that netbook sales made up 20% of all notebook computer sales in the first quarter of this year.

Acer led the field in netbook sales with a market share of 30.5%. Asus came in second.
Penetration rates for netbooks is much higher in Europe than anywhere else and DisplaySearch make the comment that this could be due to the volume of subsidised netbooks that are sold alongside mobile broadband contracts. This practice isn’t so common in North America or in fact Australia.

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