The Office of the Telecommunications Authority of Hong Kong (OFTA) Monday published for the first time the statistics of local mobile data usage.
The usage sees a surge to 147 Terabytes (i.e. 147,000 Gigabytes) as of January 2009, or an average amount of 44 Mbytes per 2.5G/3G mobile user.
This represents four times and 14 times the mobile data usage over the same period in 2008 and 2007 respectively.
A spokesman for OFTA said, "We are pleased to see the remarkable growth of mobile data usage, which indicates that members of the public are increasingly used to deploy the mobile service for transmission and reception of mobile data. This is consistent with the trend observed in other advanced economies and demonstrates that Hong Kong has matured as a leading wireless city in the region."
"With the growing importance of mobile broadband service for people in Hong Kong, OFTA has released the monthly mobile data statistics for public consumption with a view to further promoting the service," he added.
Apart from mobile data usage, the number of 2.5G/3G mobile phone users has increased by 15 percent on a year-on-year basis reaching 3.35 million in January 2009. The total number of mobile phone users is 11.43 million and this represents a penetration rate of more than 163 percent.
Source: Xinhua
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