Tag: Mobile Devices

Among all application categories, the “mobile video” traffic is expected to grow by nearly 50% annually through 2022 to estimate about 3 quarters of all mobile data traffic. Social networking is expected also to grow by 38% annually over the same period. Other application categories have annual growth rates ranging from 19% to 34%.

The frequency of purchasing online across the European markets surveyed is more monthly in cadence with the exception of the UK, where 39% purchase weekly. Ireland gripped the second space of weekly frequency of purchasing online with a rate of 26%, followed by Turkey (25%).

The majority of internet users surveyed (94%) have access to desktop or laptop, followed by a rate of 80% for smartphones. Tablets come at third place with a rate of 55%, and it is expected to be fewer than 165 million units, down by about 10% from the 182 million units sold in 2016.

Nearly 75% of mobile internet users have purchased a product or service via their mobile devices in the past 6 months. About one-third of total monthly purchases made via mobile devices including smartphone & tablet, while 44% of total monthly purchases made over the phone via a voice call.

Most of the online purchases in the Middle East and Africa are made on computers. UAE achieved the highest rate of using devices for purchasing cross-border, such as smart TV and feature phone, followed by Nigeria and Egypt. UAE also achieved the highest use of smartphones use for cross-border purchasing, followed by Egypt with a …

Mobile broadband subscribers in KSA have decreased to reach around 25.25 M subscribers in Q3 2016 after 33.4 M subscribers in 2015 with a penetration rate of 105.9%. Standard mobile subscriptions also decreased to be 12.60 M by the end of Q3 2016 after 13.2M in 2015. This decreasing returns to the new fingerprint requirement …

The total mobile subscribers in Oman has increased in Q3 2016 to reach over 6.7 million subscribers, compared to the number of subscribers in Q2 2016, while the penetration is equaled (151%) in both quarters.

The number of mobile unique subscribers in Africa reached 557 M by the end of 2015 with penetration 46% and it is expected to reach 725 million in 2020 with 6% average annual growth between 2015 and 2020, that makes Africa the second largest region behind the Asia Pacific. Mobile broadband subscribers in the region …