Richard Ashford

UK

Development Director

Everyone is saying "data" is the cashcow - however, this is based on extremely overpriced data services.

Growth will definitely come here - but expotential growth will only arrive on the back of significant price cuts.

The current estimates seem to be based on the current prices for data services and that consumers will just swallow it - whatever. That's not going to happen.

Growth will be slower than all these projections. Either fewer people at the higher cost, or more people, but at lower cost.

Did data services suddenly bring vast profits to fixed-lined telephony in the early days of the internet? No - consumers expected it cheaper and cheaper - and finally unmetered fixed price - the same will be true of mobile telephony.