On the eve of the New Year, it is customary not only to sum up the results, but also to make plans for the future. Yes, the company IDC, a leading IT market analyst, presented her forecasts regarding the mobile Internet market. Today, according to analysts, that is, at the end of 2009, more than 450 million people in the world use mobile Internet. Projections based on today's popularity and availability of mobile phones, smartphones, netbooks and other mobile devices promise that over the next four years, by 2013, the number of such users will double and cross the line of one billion users.
It is no longer enough for users to have the Internet only on stationary computers; over the past few years, online activity has increased enormously. Searching for information, reading news, downloading music and videos, sending and receiving messages remain the most popular activities, and online shopping activity is also predicted to develop (with current sales of about $ 8 trillion by 2013, sales are projected at the level of 16- Thousands of trillions of dollars), creating blogs and participating in communities, solving business problems.
The United States leads the world in terms of total number of devices connected to the Internet, but when it comes to mobile devices, China takes the lead with 85 million such devices. In the near future, a significant increase in users from India is also expected.
