Acidus wrote:

This "mobile ISPs providing content" plan will fail as soon as one mobile provider decides to focus on leveraging the content of the entire Internet. If companyA provides the fastest possible access to existing content, put money in caching proxies and into software gateways that automatically reformat HTML to fit a mobile screen they would win. Mobile providers need to embrace their role as "provider of the tubes" and make their money on charging for packets, not trying to decide what I want those packets to contain.

I *heart* my blackberry. I think I have gone into T-mobile's garden once. I average many megabytes each month, and I've got the very slow browser. When I eventually upgrade, I expect my usage to increase, and my computer usage to decrease.

It is ever so nice to have unfiltered network and email access in my pocket when working in a typical company with a filter, logs, and a strongly worded AUP. I can't (err, I don't) use the phone access for transporting internal work out... I just sometimes disagree with what is an acceptable website to view. I can understand why the IT staff does not like people using external mail... but my phone doesn't break their network.

I expect this to be more common in the near future, just like fewer people make personal calls on the company phone system because they have a cell phone in their pocket.

RE: Social networking goes mobile