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Mobile Internet growth
experience on a mobile phone. Meanwhile in other parts
of the world, such as India, their first usage of the Inter-
net is on a mobile phone. Growth is fastest in parts of the
world where the personal computer (PC) is not the first
user experience of the Internet. India, South Africa, In-
donesia and Saudi Arabia are seeing the fastest growth
in Mobile Internet usage. To a great extent this is due to
the rapid adoption of mobile phones themselves. For ex-
ample, the Morgan Stanley report states that the highest
mobile phone adoption growth in 2006 was in Pakistan
and India.
China has 155 million mobile internet users as of
June, 2009.[4] Despite the large number of mobile internet
users in China, revenues from mobile ecommerce are on-
ly expected to reach 55 million RMB in 2009.[5]
Total data consumed by Opera Mini users worldwide from 2006
to mid-2008 in TB
Predicted growth
Mobile Internet growth is the growth of the Internet
AMD, the semiconductor manufacturer, is predicting
when accessed via a mobile phone, laptop, etc. Mobile
that, by 2015, 50% of the world will have an Internet con-
phone connections are increasing more rapidly than pur-
nection.[6] Much of their initiative centres round the in-
chases of any other consumer product, according to Tomi
troduction of cheap PCs to the developing world, but the
Ahonen.[1] Since this article was published there were
reality is much of the internet usage growth they pre-
a number of announcements stating that half the world
dict will come from Mobile phones. Phone Count[7] pre-
now had mobile phones.[2] The articles in 2007-2008 were
dicts that by 2012 there will be as many connected mobile
slightly misleading because the real story at the time
phones as there are people in the world.
was that the number of mobile phone subscriptions had
reached half the population of the world. In reality many
people have more than one subscription. For example
in Hong Kong, Italy and the Ukraine, the mobile phone See also
penetration rate has passed 140% (source wireless intel- • Flat rate
ligence 2009). By 2009 even the number of unique users
of mobile phones had reached half the planet, when the
ITU reported that the subscriber number was to reach References
4.6 billion user which means 3.8 billion activated mobile [1] Communities Dominate Brands: Putting 2.7 billion
phones in use, and 3.4 billion unique users of mobile in context: Mobile phone users
phones (source TomiAhonen Consulting 2009). The Mo- [2] http://investing.reuters.co.uk/news/
bile Internet data connections are following the growth articleinvesting.aspx?type=media&storyID=nL29172095
of Mobile Phone connections albeit at a lower rate. In [3] BBC News - Over 5 billion mobile phone
2009 Yankee Group reported that 29% of all mobile phone connections worldwide
users globally were accessing browser-based internet [4] chinanewswrap.com
content on their phones. According to the BBC, there [5] Mobile E-Commerce Business Projected to
are now (2010) over 5 billion mobile phone users in the Generate ¥170m by 2011
world. [3] [6] 50x15.org
[7] Phone Count
Regional variations
Many users in Europe and the United States are already
users of the fixed internet when they first try the same
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