Mobile phone operators have been charging high for the ‘pay as you go’ or ‘P1’ internet package for the past seven years despite the internet bandwidth price having fallen several times in that period. Grameenphone, for instance, charges Tk 20 for every megabyte (MB) used under the P1 package, meaning a usage of 1 gigabyte ... Read more
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Mobile Internet user to eclipse wireline users by 2015
It’s going to be a mobile Internet world and we’ll just live in it. That’s the conclusion of IDC, which is forecasting that mobile Internet users will grow by an annual compound rate of 16.6 percent through 2015, when they will pass PC and other wireline Internet users. That’s not entirely surprising if you’ve been ... Read more
Mobile internet use nearing 50pc
Almost half of UK internet users are going online via mobile phone data connections, according to the Office for National Statistics. Forty-five percent of people surveyed said they made use of the net while out and about, compared with 31 percent in