{"id":112,"date":"2002-01-24T12:03:22","date_gmt":"2002-01-24T10:03:22","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.multiplicity.dk\/?p=112"},"modified":"2002-01-24T12:03:22","modified_gmt":"2002-01-24T10:03:22","slug":"consumers-wont-pay","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/krag.be\/index.php\/2002\/01\/24\/consumers-wont-pay\/","title":{"rendered":"Consumer\u2019s won\u2019t pay"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>Consumer&#8217;s won&#8217;t pay<\/strong> &#8211; Not that it&#8217;s actually news to anyone, but Wired News has <a href=\"http:\/\/www.wired.com\/news\/business\/0,1367,49916,00.html?tw=wn20020123\">realized<\/a> that European consumers aren&#8217;t willing to pay for on-line content, unless it&#8217;s mobile. Apparently Jupiter Media Metrix have finally put some numbers on this (in industry corridors) well-known trend. European revenue on mobile content for 2001 was almost twice as high as the equivalent on the web. 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