Report: UK Leads Global Surge in Mobile Web Use

Authored by Scott Goldberg on June 5, 2007 - 9:00am.

Bango, a company that delivers mobile web simplifying technology, published statistics on mobile web growth today, and found the UK to be leading the charge. According to the company, the top 5 countries accessing the mobile web were the UK (27%), the US (21%), South Africa (11%), India (9%), and Indonesia (3%). Bango has mobile web statistics for over 190 countries.

Though the US lags the UK in mobile web use, its usage represented a three-fold increase over the last 12 months. It is believed that mobile phone usage in the US will surpass Europe in the next three years.

“We see that wherever flat-rate mobile data charges are pervasive in a country then there's much more web browsing," said Anil Malhotra, SVP of Marketing at Bango. “This is certainly true of the US and South Africa and the imminent introduction of flat-rate data charges in the UK will push up mobile web usage in the UK even further.”

As a side statistic worthy of mention, Bango found the Sanyo Katana SCP 6600, currently available only in the US, to be the top handset for accessing mobile websites.

Related Links:
http://www.bango.com