By sinha on 20, May, 2008 | Channel: mobile

Worldwide mobile browsing report: Socionets rule the web, What do Indians surf on the mobile?

Opera has just released it’s market wise report on usage of mobile browser and here are a few interesting findings for India:

Around 48.9% of traffic from Indian Opera users goes to social networking sites and the top 10 sites Indians visit on their mobile phone are:

Mixed trend, right? Worldwide trend is pretty much the same, i.e.:

  • Social networking is popular worldwide and is the leading source of Web traffic for mobile devices.
  • Consumers desire a rich Web experience regardless of the device they use to access the Web. WAP continues to diminish as more-capable Web browsers are able to display full Web content on mobile phones.
  • Nearly a quarter of all traffic is headed to content portals or search engines.

What’s your opinion on the mobile Internet trend in India? Is there a demand-supply gap?

Do we have enough capacity that can bring down the gprs price?

Related Read: Stats on Mobile Internet in India, What do people search on their mobile?

Check out the stats for other countries

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    9 Responses to Worldwide mobile browsing report: Socionets rule the web, What do Indians surf on the mobile?

    1. kode says:
      May 20, 2008 at 1:42 PM

      am surprised to see 160by2 in this list!!

      its funny that worldwide people are using social networks, but none of these socionets have any revenue model

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    2. Vijay says:
      May 20, 2008 at 4:27 PM

      @Kode: They dont? Facebook makes about 140 million in revenues. I think the factual phrase is “they dont have a USP”.

      Its all very simple. If you socialize and pay for it, its Matrimonial 2.0. If you dont, then its a socionet :)

      Reply
    3. kode says:
      May 20, 2008 at 4:53 PM

      vijay – FB is able to do it (thanks to their intrusive baecon strategy), but myspace and others are falling flat…rgt?

      Reply
    4. Vijay says:
      May 20, 2008 at 4:55 PM

      @Kode: I am still not far off to your statement “but none of these socionets have any revenue model”

      I dont understand this dwelling on social networks and their revenue models anyways. There are a gazillion other services which can be argued on the same basis.

      Reply
    5. Mahesh says:
      May 21, 2008 at 1:54 AM

      @Kode: Here is a theory:

      Its all about eyeballs and data!! Social networks are a gold mine for user data. Over time, technologies will be built to get a better behavioral profile of the user, and hence get better at predicting user intent.

      We are not there yet, But i think we are not far off from the following scenario: A guy working for a HiTech company gets married; The AdNetworks start showing him ads on Cars and housing loans!!

      However, something interesting is happening to these walled gardens. DataPortability, OpenSocial, FriendConnect…are initiatives that have the potential to break the walls!!

      -Mahesh
      Celebrating Life…

      Reply

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    9. Dorothea Hayward says:
      February 12, 2010 at 7:22 PM

      Vielen Dank f?r den netten Artikel. Ich habe auch nen Blog zum Thema mobil surfen

      Reply