The Mobile Web
The mobile internet is growing fast. Here’s some interesting facts about it and what to watch for.
In the last twelve months, customers around the world have ordered more than $1 billion of products from Amazon using a mobile device,” – Jeff Bezos, founder and CEO of Amazon.com (July 2010).
There are more mobile phones in the world than televisions and PCs combined. Mobile subscribers will surpass 5 billion in 2010 (that’s over 70 percent of the world population)
Half a billion people accessed the mobile Internet worldwide in 2009. Usage will double within five years as mobile overtakes the PC as the most popular way to get on the Web.
By 2011, over 85 percent of new handsets will be able to access the mobile Web.
The number of 3G handsets is growing fast. 3G means faster access to the mobile Web
SMS is still king of mobile messaging with 5 trillion messages sent in 2009. Despite the popularity of mobile e-mail, IM and MMS, SMS is predicted to exceed 10 trillion in 2013.
What do consumers use their mobile devices for? According to this US data, here’s what’s going on:
1. Calls; 2. SMS; 3. Mobile Web; 4. Apps; 5. Games; 6. Social Networking; 7. Music.
There will be around 1 billion people accessing financial services by mobile by 2015.
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