Showing that Hostway’s numbers on the subject don’t extend to everyone, the MDA (Mobile Data Association for those who don’t know) is reporting that 12.3 million Brits used their mobile handset to access the internet during June 2006, which is about 20% of the UK’s total number of mobile phone users.
What can we attribute to this high percentage comparative to the rest of the world? Well, UK carriers have listened to our advice and designed specific websites around a mobile user’s needs, making it much easier to surf the wireless web. Orange has set up ‘Orange World’ for their mobile internet users, T-Mobile has ‘T-Zones’, O2 has ‘O2 Active’ and Vodafone has ‘Vodafone Live’ as internet portals from which customers can access the web via their handsets.
