Lack of Mobile Statistics
I seem to be going through a phase where many people are emailing asking for specific market statistics. Most of the requests are very specialised and there certainly isn’t any existing information out there that I can point to.
The statistics I have been asked about are required for research papers or business plans. There’s a big problem here. Without statistics, research papers and new products are less likely to happen.
The network operators have access to the majority of the statistics but don’t make any of it public, presumably for reasons of business (and in some cases end-user) confidentiality. Also, I suspect the kind of specialised information that people want, isn’t even collected by network operators as it’s not part of their day-to-day operations.
On a more positive note, I guess the increase in the number of people asking me for this information is a measure of the increase in the number of people considering mobile related activities.
