Unplugged
The underwhelming progress of 3G wireless technology has been in stark contrast to the hype that preceeded the roll-out. In this article, strategy+business looks at the reasons why this has happened. Although it reads like something written in 1999 with all of the references to B2B, B2C and B2E, it basically notes that most of the success has happened in internal corporate applications (so called B2E).
I mostly agree with the reasons listed for the disappointing growth in this area (lack of network speed, lack of consumer demand, mobile device limitations, consumer unwillingness to pay [isn't this the same as #2] and lack of worldwide wireless standards), basically I think the reason is that most wireless phone companies suck and people don't want to give them any more money. Get my wireless phone to work reliably and maybe I'll want to expand to other services. Right now, no way.