 | The Internet Kiosk market has two primary segments:
- Internet based kiosks, which are dedicated use units where users
conduct transactions or obtain information and where the Internet
serves only as the communication link.
- Internet access terminals, which provide access to the Internet, and related services, usually are a fee-for usage basis. This is the industry segment in which E-WAZE.com competes.
Already thousands of public Internet access terminals are installed across the country. Frost & Sullivan Research predicts that in both the U.S. and international markets, there could be more than 250,000 terminals in place by 2002. Estimates by Frost & Sullivan predict the Interactive Kiosk market at $836.5 million by the end of year 2000 and $2.2 billion by 2002. Currently most of the units are installed in airports, with truck stops and travel centers a distant second.
KioskCom predicts that growth will be driven by placement of units in locations such as hotels, convention centers, resorts, major retail outlets, restaurants, airports, bus and train stations, convenience stores, colleges and universities, shopping malls, office building lobbies, coin laundries and other public access areas.
From The Road Ahead, by Bill Gates:
"…In fact, public internet access facilities will replace not only pay phones but also banking machines, because they offer their capabilities as well as the other highway applications, from sending and receiving messages to scanning maps and buying tickets. Access to kiosk will be essential, and available everywhere."
Source: Paramount International Communications, Inc.
- In 2001, $200 million of goods and services will be purchased through retail kiosks.
- By 2006, this will rise to $6.5 billion in sales driven through interactive kiosks.
- An additional $77 billion in sales will be directly influenced by the use of a kiosk.
- This year over 3 million users will make purchases on a kiosk.
- The number of consumers who transact via a kiosk is predicted to rise to 23 million by 2006.
Source: Jupiter Research, Consumer Commerce, 2001
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