Reports the iPhone has triggered a rise in mobile Internet use in the US raises an interesting question on its effects on the Australian market.
Early this year Three Mobile touted their own report which found Australians were reluctant to do surfing the net on their phones due to the risk of copping a monster bill.
Sadly this belief is quite fair when you see some plans charging up to $3,000 a Gb if you go over a 5Mb monthly allowance.
While Optus has sweetened their plans slightly by offering better usage allowances on their iPhone plans, all the providers have done little to improve their mobile phone data offerings.
This stingy attitude to data by the Australian mobile operators is going to continue to cramp the growth in the Australian mobile Internet market.
Until one of the players drops their restrictive plans and outrageous excess use charges Australians will quite rightly shy away from embracing mobile web surfing.