Mobile Broadband Growth Hits an Air Pocket

The number of consumers signing up to access the Internet via PC data cards has come nearly to a screeching halt, according to new data from comScore (SCOR).

The research firm reports today that the number of U.S. subscribers signing up for mobile broadband services using data cards grew just five percent sequentially in the fourth quarter, after a long string of double-digit gains. ComScore notes that PC data card adoption grew 163 percent overall in 2008, after 157 percent growth in 2007. But the five percent growth in Q4 was down from 22 percent sequential growth in Q3; in the 2007 Q4, there was 28 percent sequential growth.

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