[111574] in North American Network Operators' Group
Re: 97.128.0.0/9 allocation to verizon wireless
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Joel Jaeggli)
Sun Feb 8 10:36:09 2009
Date: Sun, 08 Feb 2009 07:04:26 -0800
From: Joel Jaeggli <joelja@bogus.com>
To: Eliot Lear <lear@cisco.com>
In-Reply-To: <498ED990.2010806@cisco.com>
Cc: nanog@nanog.org
Errors-To: nanog-bounces@nanog.org
Eliot Lear wrote:
> On 2/8/09 3:24 AM, Jeff S Wheeler wrote:
>> Sure, smart phones are becoming more popular. It's reasonable to assume
>> that virtually all cell phones will eventually have an IP address almost
>> all the time.
>
> The numbers I keep seeing for so-called "smartphones" in the press for
> U.S. and Europe are 49% and 50% within two years, respectively. Here's
> an article you might find interesting about the U.S. domestic market,
> and it may help you calculate what sort of growth rate we can expect in
> the future, when combined with both of the above numbers. Put another
> way, the news is bad, but there is a cap on growth.
We live in rather sad times if, subscriber, arpu and internet usage
growth is considered bad news.
> http://albuquerque.bizjournals.com/dallas/stories/2008/09/29/story10.html
>
> Eliot
>
