Thursday, December 13, 2007
Orange UK: Still Looking for Killer App
Mobile Web appears to be the most-frequently-used mobile app, according to new data from Orange U.K.(France Telecom).
Orange U.K. has 1.4 million broadband wireless customers, but the single most-used application is text messaging, which doesn't require broadband access. Orange U.K. customers send or receive about 71 text messages a day (more than 2,000 a month) but just about 4.3 Multimedia Message Service (MMS) messages a day (129 a month) for users who take advantage of MMS, and most do not.
About 58 percent of Orange U.K. customers can use MMS and six-month usage growth was 37 percent.
In the mobile search area, Orange saw about 250,000 repeat visitors each day, on a base of 1.4 million users. One might therefore estimate that about 18 percent of the base uses mobile search daily.
Orange users downloaded about 7,680 games a day across the user base, up about 3.4 percent over the last six months. Music downloads grew about 15 percent over the last six months to about 3,280 a day.
Orange mobile TV usage is said to be growing at double the management forecast, but one suspects the numbers still are fairly low, as the actual numerical results were not released. Mobile video clip downloads averaged 5,211 a day.
Downloads of logos, wallpapers and pictures averaged 3,233 a day. On the other hand, users are uploading about 23,333 photos a day to online photo albums.
So far, the story would seem to be consistent with what many would have expected: lots of niche applications but no single “killer app” beyond text messaging, which doesn’t require a 3G network. Orange U.K., like other mobile service providers, remains in a “throw it on the wall and see what sticks” mode, watching to see what apps are most compelling to users of 3G services.
So far, no other mobile carrier has discovered the elusive application that users intuitively understand and that is capable of driving 3G access. Right now, that’s the point: keep experimenting.
So far, one would have to conclude that mobile Web usage is the leading app, in terms of daily hits.
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Gary Kim has been a digital infra analyst and journalist for more than 30 years, covering the business impact of technology, pre- and post-internet. He sees a similar evolution coming with AI. General-purpose technologies do not come along very often, but when they do, they change life, economies and industries.
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