Are We Ready for Mobile Identity?

The Yankee Group writes: "Assuming our forecasted mobile usage trends continue as we expect, by 2012 US mobile subscribers could generate over 360 billion identity events per year. By 'identity event,' I mean the act of authenticating to an online service or website. Applying the Law of Large Numbers to a miniscule fee per event yields another big number in the hundreds of millions of dollars. These are dollars that mobile operators and identity management vendors could leave on the table unless they capitalize on the opportunity."