Orange UK has released its 5th Digital Media Index, which shows that mobile handset data usage for the company is up 108 percent year-on-year. As part of that it found that music downloads to mobile phones increased 38 percent, video downloads increased 38 percent and the number of mobile games increased by 8 percent. Social networks also received a boost, with the number of unique users accessing them via mobile phones increasing by 48 percent. The average nuber of pages per user per month also increased by 53 percent.
Mobile dongles, which let people use mobile broadband on their laptops, leapt dramatically — subscriptions increased by 504 percent and data usage increased by 4,125 percent in the last 12 months.
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