State of the Mobile Web, October 2008

November 20, 2008 · by Espen André Øverdahl

The mobile Web as a global phenomenon. The ubiquity of the mobile phone makes it the ideal platform for many people to access the Web. The demand is there. As we saw in our previous report on Africa, many countries experienced triple-digit or even quadruple-digit usage growth in 2008.

Here are some highlights from this month's State of the Mobile Web report:

Usage, page views and data transfers rose again this month; 21 million users viewed 5 billion pages in October 2008.
Egypt, which debuted last month by knocking Germany off the list, continues to take the top 10 by storm, surging ahead of both the United Kingdom and Poland in terms of unique users of Opera Mini.
This month's geographic focus is on Southeast Asia, where we see Google as the dominant player in the search engine space and Friendster as the premier social-networking site, with hi5 coming in second. Nokia is dominant in the region, with brands like Sony Ericsson and Huawei competing for a distant second place.

Read the full report.

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TamilThursday, November 20, 2008 11:45:59 AM
Good for Opera.
HenryFriday, November 21, 2008 2:00:08 AM
SUNSaturday, November 22, 2008 6:16:17 PM
AriesptnSunday, November 23, 2008 1:32:45 AM
Here in Indonesia we spend about US$ 0.00008 - 0.0005 per KB for GPRS or EDGE data transfer. Not flat rate, we pay as we use.
Is that cheap enough?
LéazzSunday, November 23, 2008 8:48:45 AM
Charles SchlossMonday, November 24, 2008 8:50:01 AM
irfan@Wednesday, November 26, 2008 7:39:28 PM
alhamdulillah saya dapat masuk menggunakan internet setelah saya mencoba dengan atau tanpa bantuan orang lain, namun hanya dengan abtraksi2.
ekoSunday, November 30, 2008 10:52:41 PM
^_^ nice
MattWednesday, December 3, 2008 8:29:15 AM
In UK for £7.50GBP (approx$12USD) we get 500MB a month,this is on o2 network :-) very cheap
BasukiWednesday, December 3, 2008 9:03:49 AM
now telkomsel flash give 5MB only pay Rp.2500,the cheapest internet loan in indonesia
walterFriday, January 9, 2009 12:40:20 AM
mobile web will be the future