Market Momentum
Slingshot’s retail success has attracted telcos
- Sprint announced a phone card-based product (year late)
- AT&T developing their own (struggling to ship V1)
- BellSouth in negotiation for Slingshot technology
Slingshot’s Nintendo deal defines a new market
- Nintendo launching 7 online games in 2002
- Nintendo is building business around micro-subscriptions
Prepaid Internet is an emerging market
Stored Valued Digital Services is even bigger