3g-g
15th March 2006, 12:18 AM
It seems all the operators will have HSDPA offerings Q2 & 3 this year, and about time. 3G as it is makes such a difference to my working life personally just now, HSDPA will only make things so much better, it'll almost completely remove the need for me to head home to download "large" files. I'll be more than happy to sit in the car (or McDonalds/BK/KFC) and do it! :)
We've mentioned it a few times here on T3G, and I'm sure the operators are aware... the only way this'll work is if the pricing suits. None of this £2.50 per MB.
A piece in itweek (http://www.itweek.co.uk/itweek/news/2151895/carriers-plan-speed-3g-summer) suggests prices around the £34pcm for a 1Gig allowance. What do you think? If you had a 1.8M/bit mobile connection do you think you could eat that data in a few hours, never mind a month?!
...However, for HSDPA to succeed, carriers may have to lower their prices and do more to promote the advantages of fast mobile access, according to analyst firm Informa Telecoms & Media.
Informas research suggests the average price for HSDPA data bundles of between 1GB and 2GB is currently between 50 (£34) and 70 (£48) per month.
What is clear is that mobile operators will leverage HSDPAs one key advantage [of mobility compared with] both fixed DSL and Wi-Fi to justify pricing the service at a premium, commented Devine Kofiloto, principal analyst at Informa.
Other recent research suggests low uptake of 3G services is partly due to the complexity of the pricing as well as the cost, a fact acknowledged by vendors at the recent 3GSM congress.
Kofiloto said 3G providers could learn from the experience of fixed broadband suppliers who greatly increased custom when they dropped prices and offered flat-rate tariffs. He added that many carriers seem to be resisting this model, though volume limits have been raised. They have been increased significantly and a consensus on a fair use limit appears to have settled between 1GB and 2GB, he said.
We've mentioned it a few times here on T3G, and I'm sure the operators are aware... the only way this'll work is if the pricing suits. None of this £2.50 per MB.
A piece in itweek (http://www.itweek.co.uk/itweek/news/2151895/carriers-plan-speed-3g-summer) suggests prices around the £34pcm for a 1Gig allowance. What do you think? If you had a 1.8M/bit mobile connection do you think you could eat that data in a few hours, never mind a month?!
...However, for HSDPA to succeed, carriers may have to lower their prices and do more to promote the advantages of fast mobile access, according to analyst firm Informa Telecoms & Media.
Informas research suggests the average price for HSDPA data bundles of between 1GB and 2GB is currently between 50 (£34) and 70 (£48) per month.
What is clear is that mobile operators will leverage HSDPAs one key advantage [of mobility compared with] both fixed DSL and Wi-Fi to justify pricing the service at a premium, commented Devine Kofiloto, principal analyst at Informa.
Other recent research suggests low uptake of 3G services is partly due to the complexity of the pricing as well as the cost, a fact acknowledged by vendors at the recent 3GSM congress.
Kofiloto said 3G providers could learn from the experience of fixed broadband suppliers who greatly increased custom when they dropped prices and offered flat-rate tariffs. He added that many carriers seem to be resisting this model, though volume limits have been raised. They have been increased significantly and a consensus on a fair use limit appears to have settled between 1GB and 2GB, he said.