US mobile web use grows 300% in last year
Link: webitpr | Mobile web use in the US surges ahead with three fold increase in last 12 months
Bango have just released a survey of mobile web usage, which shows the US consumers are really hammering their handsets for internet access.
Bango today published statistics which confirm that the United States is at the forefront of a mobile web growth with a three fold increase in usage over the last year. This rapid rise, taking the US to second position behind the UK, is being fuelled by the increasing popularity of mobile search as a way of finding new content and services. Â
By working as a “global exchange†for the mobile web, Bango is able to provide a unique insight into where users are coming from world-wide and what handsets they are using.  The top five countries accessing the mobile web via Bango* in April 2007 were the UK at 27%, the US at 21%, South Africa at 11%, India at 9% and Indonesia at 3%. In total, Bango detects mobile web users from over 190 countries.
Ewan,
Sorry, don’t believe these numbers one bit. How are they defining “mobie web”? Are they including blackberry’s use of email? Yahoo mail? where do they get these numbers?
But sorry, no way even 1/2 of 21% mobile web use in the United States. I am in the business and I know not ONE person who uses the mobile web. Sure, the folks inside the industry use it. But no one else I know uses it.
Who paid for this survey, by the way? The MMA? These numbers are totally false and should not be believed by anyone. There is no way we are even at 5% much less 21%…
Posted by Giff Gfroerer on June 6th, 2007 at 10:04 pm.The stats sound about right; my good friend is in charge of the Asian market for Micron. Their private research supports Bango’s information pertaining to the US market.
Posted by cell directory on June 6th, 2007 at 10:25 pm.