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Thursday, November 05, 2009

Big Numbers for Mobile

I wish that I could have written this a bit earlier, but my friend Tomi Ahonen posted some really neat stats about mobile devices the other day. Here's a quick summary:

More than 3 billion people in the world use SMS;
The total revenues for SMS has passed 100 billion dollars, which is more than the combined total of the global music, global video gaming, and global movie industries!
31% of mobile phone users use the mobile web (over 4 billion registered mobile phone users globally);
A little over 1 billion PC internet users versus 1.2 billion mobile internet users

Personally speaking, these numbers are amazing. And just point to the sheer impact that mobile devices have been over the last 10+ years.

That's not to say that the PC will go away, but mobile means a lot more to more people than PC does. And we are just getting started.

Labels: global, Internet, mobility, SMS

1 Comments:

At Friday, November 06, 2009 10:38:00 AM, Antoine said...: Tomi just posted a bit more on the numbers attached to all those people globally who use a mobile device. Take a read.