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Indians come after Americans for browsing internet on mobile
By siliconindia
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Thursday, 05 November 2009, 18:33 IST |
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New Delhi: Internet browsing on mobile phones is on a rise in India, as the country stands at the second position after the U.S, registering the second highest web page views using handsets, reports mydigitalfc.
According to the telecom research agency, Informate Mobile Intelligence, search engines are the most visited websites by users, followed by email and social networking websites.
The report shows that Google remains the top website accessed on the mobile web in terms of unique users followed by Gmail, Yahoo, Orkut and Getjar with around 40 minutes every day. Facebook also remains a favourite destination for the users. The top applications were real player, visual radio, voice recorder and snake game.
Kedar Sohoni, President, Informate, stated that data usage among subscribers is witnessing growth and probably increase once third generation (3G) services are available in the country.
"Operators cannot depend on voice revenue alone. They will have to look for other forms of revenue, which is likely to come from a database. Data is the next level of growth the market is looking at," said Sohoni.
Around 30-32 percent of the total active time, which is approximately 50 minutes, is spent on communication. He said that entertainment and browsing together forms an important portion of the active time spent (around one and half hours daily). The report also states that time spent on calling are comparatively high, but having a downward trend.
"On an average, 25-30 minutes of active time is spent on voice calls. Almost 15-20 minutes of the active time is spent on messaging. Time spent on chat shows upward trend," the report states.
Mahesh Uppal, a telecom analyst, said that internet data usage would see much higher growth with better data speed.
"Once 3G services are rolled out in the country, the data services will witness a steep growth. Till recently, voice was the only form of communication subscribers used, but with the advent of the web on the phone, different forms of communication have evolved," said Uppal.
