Updated: Mobile operators around the world are milking the customers with extremely expensive fees for data transfers. Yes, mobile web data tarrifs are almost there, but unfortunatelly they’re not yet where they should be, and the experience using mobile data is horrible.... Read full article

I did 2 researches so far for mobile internet in different countries, and there seems to be a lot of positive change in both of them since (Read article on mobile web in Austria, Czech Republic). I recently receieved data from Hungary, a market which is also evolving quite quickly. ... Read full article

There was a nice post somewhere today regarding 3G, and that cities in the US are not all 3G ready - for purposes of use of the 3G iPhone (I dont know why it comes up with iPhone, Nokia has 3G in phones for 2 years, but anyway). There was a very nice map published on that topic, and I thought it would be nice to share it here.... Read full article

First, lets look at the overview of history of mobile data, and where we were and are right now.

• 1G: First analog GSM systems, existed for a few years. And then came the GSM digital systems.

• 2G: the second generation of mobile telecommunications still is the most widespread technology in the world; you’ve basically all heard of the GSM norm. It delivers data at the slow rate of 9.6 kB/sec.

• 2.5G: For data speed limitations of GSM, the operators came with GPRS, which could enable much faster communications (115Kbytes.sec - 4 - 7 kB/s).

• 2.75G: EDGE, being pretty good at downloading, although pretty slow at uploading, can reach speeds of 10 - 20 kB/sec. EDGE is quite widely used in most locations in the world.

• 3G: also called UMTS (Universal Mobile Telecommunications Standard), most commonly known for first video calls (failed), but also for great data speeds, anything from 20 - 40 kB / sec.

• 3.5G: HSDPA and HSUPA is theoretically 6 times faster than UMTS (downloads up to 3.6 Mbytes/sec, uploads up to 1.6 MBytes/sec)! Practically speaking (when using it), you can reach download speeds of 70 - 110 kB / sec. Very impressive speed and ping.... Read full article

During the weekend, I was in Austria in lovely Vienna to see the beauties of the town and have one meeting. I have decided that every country that I will visit from now on, I will find out the complete mobile data, and I think sharing some of them with you might be nice.... Read full article

I was wondering lately and checking worldwide data on mobile internet usage. Of course Admob provides some sort of data, and other companies try to do the same (m:metrics for example). But I wanted to provide you with statistics on how mobile internet is doing in a smaller example market, Czech Republic - I based on data from spokesmen from local operators, which they were so nice to provide.... Read full article