U.S. tops Western use of mobile programs

February 18th, 2008, 5:30 pm · Post a Comment · posted by Sonya Smith

A report recently released by m: metrics shows that the most mobile use happens in America, England and Spain. Of course, the report only studies the Western worlds and excludes the traditional mobile-centric Asian countries.

Here’s s0me interesting facts gleamed from the report which compared mobile usage (percentage of mobile owners in each country that use each service):

The United States leads in use of downloaded applications, ringtones, e-mail and social networking (tied with England).
Spain leads in watching of video, listening to music, receiving of ads via text messages and playing downloaded games.
Britain topped three categories of accessing news and information via a mobile web browser, sending and receiving of photos and videos and social networking (tied with U.S.).
The least mobile use was in France and Denmark.
The lowest use of any mobile service in a country was 1.3 percent of the France mobile population that use downloaded applications. The highest use found was that 72.4 percent of the Spain mobile population receives ads via text messaging.
The United States has received the least amount of text messaging ads with just 20.6 percent of the mobile population.

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