So, I felt very lucky for being able to just browse around, read my emails and access my office data from my mobile. I really felt joy and satisfaction in being able to do something useful with my time which would otherwise have gone to waste. I was thankful for the mobile internet service!
And then the question came to me. What is the penetration of mobile Internet usage? Is it something people use, or is it still considered a luxury service amongst the lucky ones who can afford it?
Next day, I googled a little bit and came across a research recently conducted by nielsen on the subject.
Nielsen currently tracks mobile Internet penetration in 16 countries (Greece is not one of them). Among these countries, the U.S. leads in mobile Internet penetration among wireless subscribers with 15.6%, followed by the U.K. (12.9%) and Italy (11.9%).
Of the countries tracked, Indonesia and New Zealand have some of the lowest mobile Internet penetration rates—just 1 out of 100 Indonesian subscribers uses the mobile Internet each month, and just 1.6% of New Zealand’s mobile subscribers do so.
In the U.S., mobile Internet has become a mass medium. As of May 2008, there were 40 million active users of the mobile Internet in the U.S., based on past 30-day usage. And this is just a subset of the 95 million U.S. mobile users who subscribed to the service but do not necessarily use it. To break it down:
- There were 254 million U.S. mobile subscribers in Q1 2008, according to CTIA, the International Association for the Wireless Telecommunication Industry
- According to Nielsen, 144 million (57%) U.S. mobile subscribers were data users in Q1 2008 (defined as those subscribers who used their phone for any data use, such as SMS [Short Message Service] text messaging or accessing the mobile Internet)
- Ninety-five million (37%) U.S. mobile subscribers paid for access to the mobile Internet, either as part of a subscription or as a transaction
- Forty million subscribers (15.6% in May 2008) were active users of mobile Internet services, using those services at least once on a monthly basis
- Mobile Internet use accounted for $1.7 billion in revenue in Q1 2008 (more than $5 billion in total revenue in 2007)
The audience using mobile Internet in the U.S. is demographically diverse enough to present marketing opportunities for all types of products and services.
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