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GeoInformatics on Your Mobile

Publishing Company CMedia Productions offers its magazines through mobile immediately. This means that all on line messages of GeoInformatics can be read on mobile phones from now on. The interest in mobile Internet is growing. This is not only because of lower prices, but also because of better techniques such as larger screens, faster data traffic techniques (EDGE/UMTS/HPSDA) and special data cards for laptops. The mobile Internet market however is not yet that big: five million page views per month. Not much compared to standard Internet, but all relevant researches show a steep grow curve. Fueled by the most recent telephones and pda's (which are more handy for use than mobile Internet browsers), decreasing costs for mobile data traffic and a bigger supply of mobile content, the market will grow rapidly in the coming years.

Publishers should unlock their content for the mobile, otherwise an imbalance will occur between supply and demand. Ruud Groothuis, publisher of GIS Magazine, CAD Magazine and GeoInformatics predicts: “in three to five years time, mobile Internet will be as huge as standard Internet.” Until that moment, GeoInformatics will have acquired a good position by already manifesting itself in the market. “Mobile will not be as huge as I thought”, Groothuis says, “but even more huge. The use of open standards, the growth of data, sensor elements and new devices will make it that big.”