900 million phones and not a B2B application in sight

cmpnetasia.com in Singapore reports from IDC today that there are now over 900 million mobile phones in Asia. Mobile service revenues in the region are now over $100 billion the report says.

Where are the business media and information companies in all of this? Nowhere as far we can see. In large, but hard-to-tap markets like India, China and Japan, why plug away with traditional media strategies that are going nowhere? There is a huge opportunity here, particularly as 3G adoption rates pick up dramatically in markets like Korea, Hong Kong and Australia. We wait for the first move...