Removing carrier subsidies on handsets appears to have...
Removing carrier subsidies on handsets appears to have a negative effect on adoption of mobile broadband, says a new paper released by the Organisation for Economic Cooperation and Development. “While in recent years it is difficult to disentangle the results…
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for communication markets, in some countries with the global economic downturn, it is notable that Italy, Finland and Belgium, which all had restrictions at some stage on handset ’subsidies’, were among the countries with lower access to the Internet through their mobile phone in 2010,” the report said (http://bit.ly/1aKbbDX). “These findings are seemingly corroborated by the OECD wireless broadband penetration data, where Belgium and Italy are placed in the bottom third of OECD countries ranked by wireless broadband penetration. Finland presents a very high wireless broadband penetration, but it is mainly made up of laptop and tablet-based subscriptions, with handset-based broadband penetration considerably lower."