It looks like the emerging markets are indeed the most mobile too. These are the statistics from the Mediascope Europe study from the EIAA. Poland users spend the most time on mobile internet with 10.3 hours online each week. Then Italy (7.9 hours), Belgium and Portugal (7.7 hours), and Russia (7.1 hours). Turkey has more mobile internet users compared to those that access internet via their PC (21% versus 20%), which indicates that consumers will engage with new platforms if it makes the internet more accessible for their everyday lives.
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Skype taking over America 89 million at a time
Skype to be rolled out on Verizon US
It looks like Skype is set to become the dominent VoIP service in the US with the announcement by Verizon that it has agreed to offer the service to their customers. The deal was announced at the Mobile World Congress in Barcelona by the two parties with the roll out said to commence in March this year.
Without full details what seems likely is that the Skype-to-Skype free calls will be available as will calling international numbers at Skype-out rates and the use of Skype Instant messaging which serves another purpose that allows users to see who is online in their contact list. The list of phones include BlackBerry Storm 9530, Storm2 9550, Curve 8330, Curve 8530, 8830 World Edition and Tour 9630 smartphones, as well as the Droid by Motorola, Droid Eris by HTC and Motorola Devour. We await further details.
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Mobile data traffic to grow to 40 billion gig by 2014
Mobile Data - 40 times greater than today
Global mobile data traffic will reach 3.6 exabytes per month or an annual run rate of 40 exabytes by 2014, according to the Cisco Visual Networking Index report. I had to look up what an exabyte was in Wikipedia and this is in fact 1 billion gigabytes.
This is just under 40 times the volume used in 2009 and constitutes a compound annual growth rate of 108 percent. By 2014, there will be over 5 billion personal devices connecting to mobile networks and billions more machine-to-machine nodes, the study predicts. Mobile video will represent 66 percent of all mobile data traffic by 2014, increasing 66-fold from 2009 to 2014 – the highest growth rate of any mobile data application tracked in the report. Over the past year, global mobile data traffic increased by 160 percent to 90 petabytes per month, a growth rate 2.4 times faster than fixed broadband data traffic.
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Smartphone exceeds 50% of UK mobile internet access
In a study by comScore performed with the cooperation of operators O2, Vodafone, Orange, T-Mobile and 3 UK it was confirmed that almost 16 million people in the UK accessed the internet from their mobile phone handsets in December 2009. The numbers are staggering with a combined 6.7 billion pages and spending an accumulated 4.8 billion minutes online during that month. It is interesting to note that 70 per cent of the total pages viewed were the Top 10 sites.
The accelerating handset usage and internet access is fueled by the rise of smartphone devices which now account for 20% of the total UK consumer base. While smartphone users account for 29 percent of the UK total mobile internet access they represent 47% of the users page views and just slightly over 50% of he total time spent online in December 2009.
Mobile Internet Access
In a study by comScore performed with the cooperation of operators O2, Vodafone, Orange, T-Mobile and 3 UK it was confirmed that almost 16 million people in the UK accessed the internet from their mobile phone handsets in December 2009. The numbers are staggering with a combined 6.7 billion pages viewed and spending an accumulated 4.8 billion minutes online during that month. It is interesting to note that 70 percent of the total pages viewed were the Top 10 sites.
- Mobile Operator Sites
- Google Sites
- Facebook.com
- Yahoo! Sites
- BBC Sites
- Apple Inc. Sites
- Microsoft Sites
- Sony Online (inc. Sony Ericsson)
- Nokia
- AOL (inc. Bebo)
The accelerating handset usage and internet access is fueled by the rise of smartphone devices which now account for 20 percent of the total UK consumer base. While smartphone users account for 29 percent of the UK total mobile internet access they represent 47 percent of user page views and just slightly over 50 percent of the total time spent online in December 2009.
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Belgium Regulator to destroy international roaming charges
It looks like the cartel on international termination charges is starting to be challenged by regulators with Belgium making the first bold move against the high cost of roaming charges. Belgian regulator BIPT wants mobile operators to halve their wholesale call termination rates and then gradually lower them to reach EUR 0.017 per minute in 2013.
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