Internet users connect with options that did not exist a decade ago.
July 27th, 2010 by admin
The most disruptive technology since the invention of the lightbulb.
- The Internet is used by more than 80 percent of Americans.
- Americans spend an average of 19 hours per week online.
- Text messaging has more than doubled in just two years:
Mobile users average 38 messages per day, compared to 16 in 2007. - LOCiMOBILE passed the 500K sub mark in 84 countries for GPS Tracking
- Twitter exceeds 800 million search queries per day
- More than 70 percent of mobile users credit their phone with helping them to maintain their social relationships, up from 64 percent in ‘08.
- About 18 million Americans are active users of mobile banking services
- With an estimated 800K mobile customers, Citi ranks fifth in mobile banking and is the 11th most popular App Store finance application.
- Verizon indicated that 35% of its retail postpaid customers had smartphones or multimedia.
- Smartphone growth remains 40% YoY and should grow in excess of 20% CAGR for the next five years.
- Wireless data represents ~34% of total ARPU (average revenue per user)
- While messaging continues to grow, AT&T showed much better growth than Verizon.
- AT&T: 53.2% of their 67 million postpaid subs have integrated devices, up from 36.3% a year ago, with a record 3.2 million iPhones sold in the quarter.
