48% of Americans Willing to Ditch Mobile Data
By Simon Sage on Friday, June 26th, 2009 at 1:15 PM PST In Research
While cell phones are somewhat recession-proof in their necessity, a recent survey of some 1,110 people revealed a solid 48% would completely ditch their mobile data service in the face of financial crisis. Across all of the services (broadband internet, digital television, fixed voice, mobile voice and mobile data), none of them showed any indication of upgrading to a higher tier of service, and the sizeable majority (67%) wouldn’t change their broadband internet service. That says pretty clearly that most folks see mobile internet services as a luxury ripe for sacrificing since they can always use their home internet, and puts into question all of those glowing analyst forecasts about the future of mobile data. What do you guys think? I’m not sure if I could lose data service altogether – mobile GPS is just too useful for me to not have.
[via BusinessWire]
For me mobile data is a close third behind mobile voice and broadband Internet. I’d give my cable box the heave-ho *long* before I’d ditch my mobile data plan — getting close to doing that now, actually…
I am using mobile data (flat fee 10EUR/month) more than mobile voice and would feel disconnected without it. A lot of people will feel the same once they get a smartphone with social networking capabilities.
I think I would ditch fixed voice first as I have mobile voice already and already use it at home. Mobile’s even cheaper because I get free call minutes in my mobile subscription.
Unfortunately, fixed voice is connected to broadband internet but I would seriously look for an alternative with only broadband internet.
Digital television is not something I need.