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

Today I got my hands on either a big mistake, or a big joke, from two different sources. According to m:metrics, which I have a strong respect, these are monthly statistics for mobile ad requests in Europe for March 2008: ... 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

If you have trouble looking for mobile web page creators, WAP site builder tools, ergo a tool that will help you build your WAP site, I prepared a a list that can help you get through this pain.... 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