About 45 percent of respondents use their mobile phones to access the Internet, rising to 50 percent among Internet users in the United Arab Emirates. Fully 71 percent rank email as biggest mobile data activity. Other popular activities on the mobile Internet were social networking (34 percent), news & weather (29 percent), sports news (29 percent) and hobbies (25 percent).
Sunday, February 6, 2011
45% of Middle East, North Africa Mobile Customers Use Mobile Web
Some 45 percent of Internet users taking part in a mobile usage survey across the Middle East and North Africa told Spot On PR that they used their mobile phones to access the Internet. Of those, 85 percent stated that they have downloaded applications for their mobile phones, while 27 percent claimed to download more than one mobile app per week. About 20 percent of mobile Internet users also claimed to have paid money for a mobile application download.
About 45 percent of respondents use their mobile phones to access the Internet, rising to 50 percent among Internet users in the United Arab Emirates. Fully 71 percent rank email as biggest mobile data activity. Other popular activities on the mobile Internet were social networking (34 percent), news & weather (29 percent), sports news (29 percent) and hobbies (25 percent).
About 45 percent of respondents use their mobile phones to access the Internet, rising to 50 percent among Internet users in the United Arab Emirates. Fully 71 percent rank email as biggest mobile data activity. Other popular activities on the mobile Internet were social networking (34 percent), news & weather (29 percent), sports news (29 percent) and hobbies (25 percent).
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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