You are browsing the archives of mobile statistics.

Yes you read it right there will be 250 million internet capable phones by 2010. This and more such statistics were revealed by D Shivakumar, vice-president and managing director, Nokia India, at the Goafest conclave. Here is a summary of the statistics he shared:

500 million mobile consumers by 2010
60 million will have video capability
100 million [...]

Mobile web users stands for those users who surf the web on their phones using either wap or gprs. Till last year the Indian % of users among the total mobile web users in the world was limited to 4%.
But a new survey by UK-based Bango Plc, which tracks the users from over 190 countries [...]

According to P N Padukone, Sr Deputy Director General of Dot Telecommunication Engineering Centre WiMAX could be the answer to ‘last mile’ connectivity issues that prohibit Internet connection in rural India. Now its easy to brush this off as a over optimistic statement but one look at the RNCOS’ report “WiMAX - A Market Update [...]

India’s going mobile like never before and an addition of 6.2 million mobile users in the month of September a record for any country is proof of that fact. This growthis making it one of the world’s fastest growing markets for cellular phones. The GSM network added 4.4 million subscribers in September, while mobile connections [...]

Research and Markets has released a research report on Indian Telecom Sector Analysis (2006-2007)
Key Findings:
Asia Pacific Wireless Telecommunication Market is attributed to the growth in demand in countries like India and China.
India’s mobile phone subscriber base is growing at a rate of 82.2%.
China is the biggest market in Asia Pacific with a subscriber [...]

India’s mobile space is booming! According to a report by TDG Research India’s Mobile user base is expected to rise upto 350 million in year 2010 from the current 100 million i.e. a rise of 250 million in 4 years.
Key findings from TDG’s study of India’s mobile markets include the following:

Despite 12 years [...]

High end Mobile phones might be the fastest selling item on ebay India but Indian’s are far behind when it comes using the hi-tech services that such a mobile phone can offer. According to a study by global research firm Forrester out of the 56 per cent mobile users in the country, who possess a web-enabled [...]

LosAngelesTimes: Indians seem to be taking to the mobile revolution faster than their Chinese counterparts. According to current growth rates India’s monthly additions in mobile subscribers could overtake China as early as September this year predicts Gartner, an information technology research consulting firm. Though the overall mobile market size of India is less than one fifth of that [...]

53 percent of all games played on mobile phones are downloaded by the user, while 39 percent of games played are already existing in the users phone. The remaining eight percent of games are played online on the mobile Web. Seventy-one percent of all downloaded mobile game revenues are generated from on-portal game purchases, while 29 percent come [...]