http://seattlepi.nwsource.com/business/344882_mobileweb26.html
Some key quotes out of the article:
But at a recent conference, 3G was called "a failure" by Caroline Gabriel, an analyst at Rethink Research. She said data would make up only 12 percent of average revenue per user in 2007, far below the expected 50 percent. (The 12 percent figure does not include text messaging, but you don't need a 3G network to send a text message.)
Similarly, surveys by Yankee Group, a Boston research firm, show that only 13 percent of cell phone users in North America use their phones to surf the Web more than once a month, while 70 percent of computer users view Web sites every day.
"The user experience has been a disaster," said Tony Davis, managing partner of Brightspark, a Toronto venture capital firm that has invested in two mobile Web companies.
What does this mean to those of us who are pushing for more mobile web? Well, if you dive deeper most believe that products and newly designed mobile browser applications coming around in the next 5 years will solve the problem. But, in the short term is does prove that the mobile web is not yet ready for prime time. Stay tuned.