Another great Infographic below, this time for cellphone usage. Although the stats are from the USA its still pretty impressive to read some of the stats, I particularly love the way calling has become a massively declining feature. Below I have listed for you some of the interesting stats on cellphone use in South Africa:Via onlineitdegree
- SA is ranked 5th in World for mobile data usage (1st is Russia, 7th is USA!)
- 30% of mobile users in SA are active on facebook via their phones (200 million globally)
- 50% of SA facebook users access it via mobile
- In 2009 there were 2.8 billion please call me’s (USSD)
- There are more mobile phones in SA than Taxis+TV’s+Radios combined
- More active sim cards than citizens (Different operators sim cards are used at different times of the day depending on call/text/data cost)
- Mxit gets 40,000 new users per day globally
- 3 tiers of mobile internet access locally (approx figures): 3 mill have full web access, 11 mill through apps (Mxit, email etc), 13 mill through WAP
The ‘Dollars spent on mobile devices’ stat doesn’t make any sense. Apple alone sold 1.8 million iPads in the US on Q3/F10.
chris – nice post.
one thing, that SA stat, where did you get it from? I am struggling to get my head around it… is it 5th biggest consumer of mobile broadband per user? total country volume? needs an anchor metric it seems
thanks
Sir Justin,
Got it from a report given to me by Dave, will look it up and get back to you.
Have a wonderful 2012 dear chap and hope to chat soon.
Chris