SPOTLIGHT: Content vs. carriers at Mobile Entertainment Live!

Content squared off against carriers at Monday's Mobile Entertainment Live! event as Walt Disney Internet Group executive vice president of development and operations Larry Shapiro debated Virgin Mobile USA general counsel and founder Peter Lurie on the present state of the mobile content industry. According to data supplied by Nielsen Mobile and cited by moderator Tom Wheeler, managing director of Core Capital Partners, about 90 percent of wireless subscribers now have devices capable of doing more than making phone calls, but only 33 percent of subscribers pay for data plans and only 13 percent use them regularly. Click here to read the rest of the article.