The US is one confused wireless market. By some measures, the US lags behind Europe and Asia in the mobile industry, by other measures, the US is tops. Case in point, mobile internet usage.
A study from Nielson Mobile (PDF link) shows that the US ranks as the country with the highest percentage of mobile internet users. The study took in to account 16 countries’ mobile internet penetration rates, and concludes that the US is No. 1. The US showed a 15.6% mobile internet penetration rate, with the UK boasted 12.9% and Italy trailing with penetration figures of 11.9%. Interestingly, the mobile phone that served up the most mobile-web data was the Motorola RAZR and RAZR2 – not the iPhone, not some BlackBerry, just a plain-old RAZR. Go figure.
“In the 16 countries we looked at, the U.S. is tops in terms of penetration and I would say that surprises me at this point,” said Nic Covey, Nielson’s director of insight.
We agree, that is truly surprising. Of course, all these “research” figures are highly dependent on the sampling population.
[Via: MocoNews]