Consumer spending on mobile networking applications — mobile search, movie downloads and other innovative applications — surged in the United States and overseas during the just-completed quarter, sources tell UPI’s Networking.
Leading mobile operators including Cingular Wireless, Vodafone, Orange and Telefonica are seeing sales increases. Smart-phone users, researchers said, are driving the trend.
One mobile content supplier, New York-based Bango Inc., said consumer spending on mobile content in the United States for the first quarter of this financial year — April-June 2006 — was seven times higher than for the same quarter last year.
In the United Kingdom, spending was more than 50 percent higher, and in continental Europe, the Far East and Australia, end-user spending was four times higher than the same quarter one year ago, according to statistics from Bango.
