This year, there will be an average data traffic of 8 petabytes on a monthly basis over mobile phones in the US. Of this, close to 79% is expected to happen via smartphones. According to a recent study conducted by UK firm Coda Research Consultancy, the mobile internet traffic from smartphones is expected to surge [...]

AdMob’s monthly metrics report claims that website traffic from smartphones has increased 193% over the past one year. On a comparative scale, traffic from feature phones in down. Among the smartphones, the iPhone alone contributes to nearly 50% of the traffic. Here are the smartphone OS traffic share for the month of Feb 2010 iPhone [...]

Mobile internet has been growing pretty fast and some networks are already onto 4G technology. A big chunk of growth has undoubtedly been in the US which is now home to the largest number of 3G subscribers in the world. Here are some interesting statistics Number of 3G subscribers in USA : 117 million (18% [...]

There are close to 418 million internet users in Europe – a number that has grown 298% over the past decade. While the internet usage via mobile phones have been steadily increasing, there is also a conspicuous observation that the potential is far higher than what the reality suggests. Here are a few stats on [...]

According to a study by Conrad Lisco of the R/GA group, there will be close to 150 million mobile users worldwide who shall access banking services from their mobile device. So, where are these users coming from? Here is a tentative breakup based on their location East Asia (China, Japan, Korea,etc.) : 41% West Europe [...]

Mobile internet users in United Kingdom have been growing at a rate of 19.3% YoY and in terms of pageviews, there has been a 50.1% growth. So who are the carriers enjoying this increasing growth? Here is the market share among network operators in UK in terms of data usage. O2 : 32% Orange : [...]

In its latest ‘State of the Mobile Web‘ report, Opera offers an insight into the average pageviews viewed by mobile web users across different users. While the numbers are interesting, you need to discount the fact that Opera is not available on iPhone as yet, and so the numbers may not reveal the complete picture [...]

There has been a lot of strain on the wireless network ever since the smartphones came into existence. With increasing proliferation of such devices, the bandwidth consumption will only increase from here. Here is the projected average data consumption over smartphone devices on a per subscriber basis over the next few years for the US [...]

Mobile phones are much better social connectors than traditional desktops. 91% of mobile internet users in USA have used it for social networking compared to just 79% of desktop users. Here are the top ways people use mobile phones to connect socially according to a study by Ruder Finn Instant Messaging : 62% Forward emails [...]

Mobile data traffic has been growing strong thanks to increased use of ‘over the top’ applications like Youtube and Skype. For instance, Youtube contributes to 32% of all mobile streaming bandwidth and 10% of all mobile bandwidth, while Skype has contributed to 77% of all VoIP bandwidth. Here is how the different applications have grown [...]