Verizon making the handset valuable

The mobile telephony business is, I think, at point in the curve where its expansion -- especially revenue -- goes vertical. The reason is the increase in valuable services using handsets as pointed out in this USA Today piece about Verizon: Verizon Wireless expands multimedia service for cell phones. Here's a taste:

Beginning Feb. 1 in more than 30 U.S. cities, Verizon Wireless launches a multimedia service called VCast, which promises to let folks watch streaming on-demand news, weather, sports, music and other videos and play three-dimensional games. VCast exploits the company's high-speed, third-generation telecom network, known as EV-DO (Evolution-Data Optimized).

That's for others though. I still think that the real killer app for a mobile phone is talking to other people.

Posted by Grayson at January 10, 2005 07:40 AM