Mobile Data Still Growing in Downturn
3G services aren’t slowing down notwithstanding the recession. As plans’ prices drop and devices get slicker, the mobile Internet is enjoying its own little boom in which case
By Natasha Lomas
It seems 2008 is the year of mobile facts—in spite of the economic downturn.
Orange’s research into its customers’ behaviour shows fickle data usage almost doubling in the last place. It also said it has added 1.3 million 3G customers since the research was last conducted in November 2007 to January 2008.
Dongle subscriptions have grown by greater degree of than 2,000 per cent since then, the report base.
Orange reckons data rises can be put down to better designed devices—both handsets and dongles—enabling easier access to the mobile internet. It believes dedicated fickle data excellence plans be favored with also helped, along with the rise of mobile festive networking.
Social networking sites such as Facebook and MySpace are generating some average of additional than 166 million monthly mobile page impressions, according to the report. Meanwhile, mobile pry into has increased by 30 per cent and topical search by 100 per cent, while September saw a record 300,000 tracks downloaded, according to Orange.
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