One of the truths about virtually every business is that 80 percent of the profits will tend to come from about 20 percent of the activities people at those businesses conduct. In the communications business, profit historically was generated by business customers, who provided the surplus required to run the money-losing rural parts of the business, and later the break-even suburban residential business.
Those realities are changing with the advent of mobile service and broadband.
Thursday, May 24, 2012
Where Do Service Providers Actually Make Their Profits?
Gary Kim has been a digital infra analyst and journalist for more than 30 years, covering the business impact of technology, pre- and post-internet. He sees a similar evolution coming with AI. General-purpose technologies do not come along very often, but when they do, they change life, economies and industries.
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