Showing posts with label Mobile penetration. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Mobile penetration. Show all posts
May 28, 2015
African digital indicators : 900 million and counting,mobile penetration set to to touch 80%
asia pacific digital indicators: 35% penetration rate with 93% mobile connections
July 27, 2014
Digital Indicators In South Asia : Internet Penetration vs Mobile Penetration
INTERNET AND SOCIAL INDICATORS : 17%penetration rates with 31% across urban cent res , with 72% increase in Mobile subscription
June 11, 2014
Sub Saharan Region is the world next biggest mobile Goldmine,mobile web to see 20 times growth
Recent research report published by Ericsson on the state of mobile market in sub saharan region showed many suprises. It clearly shows that Sub-Saharan Africa is currently undergoing a mobile digital revolution with consumers, networks and even media companies wakening up the possibilities of 3G and 4G technology with the growth of mobile web, digital traffic has recorded a 100% increase over the last 12 months.
Most African users go mobiles for online activities to overcome a weak or non existent Internet /landlines infrastructure across large swaths of the world's poorest continent
However make no mistake about this ..Africa is where the next mobile gold mine lies . and its claim to be the Mobile Continent is increasingly becoming a possibility with researchers predicting a 20-fold increase in the "Mobile Web" in the next 5 years, which is 200% higher (double the rate of growth in the rest of the world. ) than other nations
Recent Data released by Ericsson forecasts that there will be more than 635m mobile subscriptions in sub-Saharan Africa ( the pdf below explains how this will be happening ). This is predicted to rise, to about million by late 2019, when it is estimated that three in four mobile subscriptions will be exclusive for mobile web.
Most African users go mobiles for online activities to overcome a weak or non existent Internet /landlines infrastructure across large swaths of the world's poorest continent
However make no mistake about this ..Africa is where the next mobile gold mine lies . and its claim to be the Mobile Continent is increasingly becoming a possibility with researchers predicting a 20-fold increase in the "Mobile Web" in the next 5 years, which is 200% higher (double the rate of growth in the rest of the world. ) than other nations
Recent Data released by Ericsson forecasts that there will be more than 635m mobile subscriptions in sub-Saharan Africa ( the pdf below explains how this will be happening ). This is predicted to rise, to about million by late 2019, when it is estimated that three in four mobile subscriptions will be exclusive for mobile web.
February 18, 2013
UK Smartphone Penetration to overtake US in 2013 ?
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Recent data from Techcrunch shows that Internet shopping on mobiles is also on the rise — and the U.K. leads for online shopping generally (across all connected devices), with U.K. consumers now spending more than £1,000 per year buying stuff online.
A recent Google commissioned UK study highlights findings on mobile consumer behavior reveals four trends; 1)mobile users are seeking local information, searching with greater urgency than desktop, finding new ways to entertain themselves, and using phones as shopping companions
2) Take a closer look: 68% of local information seekers call or visit a business after looking up a local information on their smartphone.
3) 45% of smartphone shoppers report purchase decisions were influenced as a result of using a smartphone. 4)87% of smartphone users notice mobile ads
March 1, 2012
Smartphone Sales to double PC sales, to reach 1.5 billion
Smartphone sales blew past the number of PCs sold last year, and they'll
be nearly twice PC sales this year, analyst Alex
Cocotas of BI Intelligence predicts.
More startling, smartphone sales will exceed 1.5 billion units per
year by 2016. This compares to about 350 million PCs and 1.7 billion
mobile handsets sold globally last year.
Smartphone sales will be driven by two main factors, BI Intelligence
says:
- Replacement of nearly 5 billion "dumbphones" with smartphones (smartphones currently make up only 10% of handsets worldwide)
- Price declines. The average price of a smartphone will drop from about $315 last year to $200 over the next several years
This will obviously have a huge impact on the
mobile Internet economy, which is already exploding from the growth of
smartphone penetration in the past few years.
Some other highlights from the report:
- Smartphone unit sales will grow at nearly a 30% compound annual growth rate over the next five years
- Smartphones will represent about two-thirds of all mobile phone purchases by 2016,
- Smartphones will be a $320 billion market by 2016.
These
forecasts are much higher than those of other industry analysts, who generally
expect smartphone unit sales to hit about 1 billion a year by 2015.
October 2, 2011
Smartphone Users in South Korea to Touch 20 Million by end of 2011
The number of
smartphone subscribers in South Korea hit 15 million this week, according to
data from the country's three mobile operators released Wednesday.
South Korean smartphone subscribers numbered 15.35 million as of Monday, including 7.8 million users at the industry leader SK Telecom, 5.45 million at KT Corp. and 2.1 million at LG Uplus Corp., the mobile carriers said.
The country reached the milestone less than four months after the number of users passed 10 million in late March, highlighting a recent spike in smartphone adoption.
It took roughly 17 months to hit the 10 million mark.
, the smartphone caught on nationwide at a faster clip than in most other countries.
The data also showed that the market for the feature-packed,
handheld computing devices is the fastest growing segment in the country's
saturated wireless market, which is estimated at about 52 million users.South Korean smartphone subscribers numbered 15.35 million as of Monday, including 7.8 million users at the industry leader SK Telecom, 5.45 million at KT Corp. and 2.1 million at LG Uplus Corp., the mobile carriers said.
The country reached the milestone less than four months after the number of users passed 10 million in late March, highlighting a recent spike in smartphone adoption.
It took roughly 17 months to hit the 10 million mark.
, the smartphone caught on nationwide at a faster clip than in most other countries.
On the back of the robust demand, mobile operators are confident about meeting their smartphone subscriber targets by the end of the year.
SK Telecom aims to lure a total of 10 million smartphone users by December, while LG Uplus seeks to add another 0.9 million.
KT, the No. 2 mobile carrier and the dominant fixed-line operator, revised up its year-end target by 30% to 8.5 million.
In a joint report from the Korea
Communications Commission and the Korea Information Security Agency looks at why and how Koreans are using the new
objects of their techie affections.
1.
Most Koreans (28.6
percent) use their smartphones for between one and two hours a day, with 24.8
percent using them for more than three hours daily. On average, Koreans use
their smartphones for an impressive 1.9 hours per day. (The graphic above gives
more details.)
2.
The most common uses
for their smartphones are (most popular first): as a diary, as an alarm,
to get info/web-surfing, listening to music, for storing contact info, email,
games, news, watching TV or movies, weather info, and traffic information.
3.
Korean smartphone
users access the internet for an average of 58 minutes per day using their
handsets.
4.
They have an average
of 28 apps on their phone — though they only use nine or so, and…
5.
Fully 80 percent of
them complain about after-sales service, with the most common gripes relating
to shortcomings with repairs and the difficulty of exchanging handsets.