It’s time for another MobileMonday event – yeah! (I know, it’s pretty close to the previous event, but we have eight good excuses) As you might notice there’s the upcoming Startup Asia event in Jakarta, and as part of the supporting community we have the opportunity to grab some of the interesting startup to DO […]
No doubt, mobile Internet has become the recent darling of Indonesian mobile industry. Growth in number of subscribers and revenue has been attributed to the growth of mobile broadband services, which is fueled by usage of Internet through mobile devices. Many of Indonesian’s first Internet experience are actually mobile as well. Obviously Social Networking sites are the reason behind it. We also notice the recent trend in declining mobile broadband prices (from Rp 100k/month not-so-long-ago to Rp 25k?). Good on one hand, potentially hazardous on the other hand. Is this a sign of commoditization? Or there are exciting opportunities behind …
Most of the headlines in the newspapers are around the middle class people in the cities. Urban life. All the malls and socialites. Surely it’s the hottest market at this moment. But let’s turn to the other part of Indonesia. We know that around 55% Indonesia’s population still live in rural area. And though middle class is said to be 56%, the majority of it (38%) is living in the range of $2 – $4 per day. We know that these people have strong needs for communications as well, especially mobile communications. Our fellow citizen in the rural area does …
I think the presenters in the event provided a good balance of opinion. Part of them are upbeat about the opportunity in M2M, while there’s also the realist part… Audience are a bit of a split as well. That’s my quick take on the event. The slides can be found here, as usual: https://sites.google.com/site/idmomoslides2012/ Rustam Effendie, from Ericsson Indonesia, opened the session with a nice video, and share Ericsson view on the potential of M2M. M2M should be viewed as not a mere technology, or even ecosystem only, but as a change potential in the society enabled by technology. (By the …
As you know, we’re closing to pass the 6-billion-mobile-subscribers-on-earth mark (5.9 billion and counting). A very remarkable feast and left us sometimes wondering, what else to be connected… Pundits, analysts, and futurists believe, however, that there are still more room to grow. The phrase “50 billion connected devices by 2020″ – is one of the […]
Guys, apology that I haven’t been able to post the recap… crazy busy. Nevertheless, here’s the link to the slides: https://sites.google.com/site/idmomoslides2012/ And Frost & Sullivan team has already put their slide on SlideShare as well: Frost & Sullivan MobileMonday 13 Feb 2012 M-Commerce: Everything Online View more presentations from Frost & Sullivan Enjoy and […]
Dear MobileMonday Friends, Welcome to the next MobileMonday event, co-hosted with Telkomsel and themed “Mobile Commerce in Digital Lifestyle: Opportunities and Challenges for 2012” This is a very hot and interesting topic. As noted by Tomi Ahonen (Pearls #3 – Mobile Money, 2011), mobile application in commerce space has gone from a long way from […]
Dear MobileMonday friends, “Apps” – in the era of smart phones, apps have played a very important role, and an important monetization means for telco, platform provider, and developers. We are also living in the time of major shifts that helps in app developers: 1) there are more ways to monetize in apps – not just one-time fee to download, 2) Asian countries are on the rise for Apps – good for us, 3) apps dynamics, what leads today may not tomorrow – if you’re not yet successful, try again. It is also, on the other hand a tough objectives …
Hi MobileMonday! One of the most overlooked opportunity is mobility applications in the enterprise. According to IDC (IDC Blackbook March 2011 Ed.), enterprise IT spending in Indonesia is worth $2.89 billion in 2011, about the same size as consumer IT spending. About 28% of that spending goes to software and services, including mobility applications… and about 36% goes to devices – including post-PC-era tablets and smartphones. So why not? Because catering for enterprise market is a different game. Take this opportunity to learn and understand this market. Join us with exciting and insightful speakers from: Ad-Ins (http://www.ad-ins.com) Pravina (http://www.mypravina.com) Tagit …
A very quick recap on the event today… it’s 1 AM, so apology if I made any typo… A quick note before everything else though… last night’s event marked the anniversary of RIM’s sponsorship for MobileMonday Indonesia. Thank you, once again for our platinum sponsor. Now, back to the event. We had 6 speakers for […]
