Categories: Mobile

Top mobile sites in India for Jan 2010: Opera

Opera has released the mobile Internet usage for Jan 2010 report recently. Of the 10 countries covered by them, India too has been covered. Clearly shows mobile internet in India is on the rise.

Snapshot: India

Page-view growth since January 2009: 225.9%
Unique-user growth since January 2009: 236.3%
Page views per user: 344
Data transferred per user (MB): 6
Data transferred per page view (KB): 19
GetJar is back on the list after a 9-month absence.

I don’t find any pure Indian mobi site in this list. Sad. I believe mobile internet users are not aware of the existing mobi portals in India.

Top handsets for January 2010

Nokia 5130 XpressMusic
Nokia 2700c
Nokia N70
Nokia 3110c
Nokia N73
Nokia 6300
Nokia 7210
Nokia N72
Nokia 5310 XpressMusic
Nokia 3500c

Coming to mobile search the big daddy is Google (84%), followed by Yahoo (16%). Bing is yet to show up on mobile search. Opera Mini users in Vietnam and India are the biggest users of search portals. In India, 22.1% of page views are from search portals, and users viewed an average of 75.8 search-portal pages per month.

Mobile Internet in India: How big is it really?

As of September 2009 India had 471 million mobile users. The December 2009 report from IAMAI on Mobile Internet in India says, Mobile is emerging as the potential point of access for low PC and high mobile penetrated Indian market, although the present usage is restricted to 4% of total…

January 6, 2010

In "Mobile"

Wish List 2011: Indian Online Publishers

An extract of my wish list from "Wish List 2011: Indian Online Publishers" I would like to see a lot more money being budgeted for online advertising by brands. Agencies can play a big role in making this happen. Compared to TV and print, the internet penetration is less in…

January 4, 2011

In "Internet"

How big is the mobile marketing opportunity from WAP sites in India?

Last numbers from TRAI for September 2008, 10 million mobile users added in Sept (7.69m GSM, 2.34m CDMA) Total number of mobile users: 315 m (slurp!). In August the user base was 305.24 m. India is the 'fastest' growing wireless/mobile market and the second largest market after China. Majority of…

October 25, 2008

In "Mobile"

BG Mahesh

Internet application ideator and implementor. Been there and done that since early 1990s. I like to present data to the common man in the simplest manner on the internet.