Stats for Russian & Ukrainian Wireless Penetration

As of October 2007:

Russian Penetration: 114%
Moscow: 170%
St Petersburg: 147%
Totals: 1.6 million in Sept 2007 for a total of 165 million

Ukrainian Penetration: 115%
Total: 54 million

Is that crazy or what?

Is There Nothing New In The World Of Wireless?

There's nothing new in the world of wireless!!!

Really, is anything coming this year? 2007 has been pretty quiet except for the iPhone. But I'm not even really referring to new phones.

Let's look at what wireless has given us in the last few years:

• Better text messaging (SMS)
• Launch of inter-carrier SMS (ICMS)
• Global ICMS (GICMS)
• Multi-media messaging (MMS)
• ICMMS
  
• Satellite radio on your phone
• MobiTV
  
• Downloading movies on your phone (ok, this is really still just hitting us right now)
• Better ringtones
  
• Downloading of full-length songs
• Better video games
• Multi-player video games
• Social networking on your phone (MySpace, Facebook, YouTube)
• Better GPS apps
• Video conferencing (not mainstream yet)

I guess we're still waiting for:

• Global ICMMS (I'm sure it exists, but not at my telco, I think)
• Live TV
• Abolishment of CDMA networks and migration to GSM
  
• Two-way compatibility between iDEN and VoIP push-to-talk PCS phones
  
• Better camera phones (they ARE out there somewhere; my buddy just showed me a 5mp camera phone he ordered from China)

• Wifi-capable phones that work on your carrier-provided wifi router at home for FREE, also giving you perfect in-door coverage; then when you go outside, your phone reverts back to working off the carrier's sites

• M-Commerce: when the heck are we going to be able to buy things in stores by flashing our phones in front of a terminal? What's the hold-up? Back in 2001 I bought a soda-pop from a vending machine by using my phone; granted, it was at a wireless convention, but why the heck has 6 years gone by without these vending machines being EVERYWHERE?

Hmmmm...I feel a rant coming on.

Could you PLEASE tell me what I'm missing?

WHAT IS THERE TO LOOK FORWARD TO IN THE WORLD OF WIRELESS IN 2007 OR 2008? Please comment on this post.

Indian Mobile Subscriber Additions for July

Look at some of these stats for India:

Bharti Airtel: 2.1 million new adds in July Total: 44.8 million

Other Totals

Idea Cellular: 17 million
Bharat Sanchar Nigam: 30 million
Vodafone Essar: 32 million
Mahanagar Telephone Nigam: 2.7 million

High End Smart Phone Users Want Games Too

The mobile phone gaming industry accounts for about 700 million dollars a year in North America.

Some of the gaming companies are turning their eyes towards high-end smart phone users, such as Crackberry Addicts, Qusers, Treos, and the iPhone.

Some of those companies are EA Mobile, Gameloft, Glu Mobile, Magmic, Popcap Games, and Handango.