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“Photo messaging, hailed as one of the tech world's Next Big Things when it was launched in 2002, isn't quite as big as cell phone companies had hoped.
Analysts say that although consumers continue to snap up camera phones in record numbers, and do often use them to snap pictures, they aren't sending photos to one another in the same way they do text messages.
That's not good news for cell phone companies that are counting on multimedia revenues for future growth.
The lackluster state of multimedia services has even led Credit Suisse First Boston to change its forecast of photo messaging's effect on carriers' bottom lines.
Researchers there predicted in September 2003 that photo messaging would contribute at least 67 cents to carriers' average revenue per unit this year. But last April, they slashed that figure to 33 cents. ”
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Posted by Darren in our News category on October 10, 2004