Vodafone recently released it’s 2H2012 report. At the same time they also shared “Data usage per customer among iPhone subscribers was up 30 percent compared with the same period last year, while Android device data usage increased 25 percent. Tablet usage in general was up 60 percent. ” See more details in Light Reading article here, and VF Transcript here.

Bytemobile Smart Capacity solutions are designed to help operators manage their ever growing data traffic - find out more about our solutions here, and why so many operators have deployed Smart Capacity.

- Anna Yong

Congratulations to Deutsche Telekom and Vodafone - the top 2 mobile internet providers in Germany, measured by the P3 Group. More details on the report in german here and english here. Full english report here.  These results are consistent with Chip Magazine tests from earlier there year - see here.

Bytemobile understands that the mobile internet  – especially in regions and countries where consumers have so many choices - is extremely competitive. We look forward to continuing our efforts with our customers to create the best mobile data experience possible.

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As an indication of the growth in mobile ecommerce, eBay recently reported that the company is on pace to double their mobile gross merchandise volume in 2012, up from $5 billion a year ago.

No surprise - the recently released Citrix ByteMobile’s Q4 2012 Analytics report found that the eBay app made the Top 10 Volume producing apps for iOS smartphones and tablets. For the full report, click here.

Expect this trend to increase - Juniper Research also recently forecast the number of consumers purchasing physical goods remotely via mobile device is poised to increase by roughly 50 percent, from 393 million in 2012 to 580 million in 2014. And in related news: Ebay owned PayPal is now selling its PayPal Here credit card reader at 1,800 AT&T Mobility across the US. (PayPal Here enables small businesses and other users to process credit and debit transactions by swiping cards through a triangle-shaped dongle that attaches to their smartphone or tablet.)

See also - related info about smartphones and mobile retail behavior from Comscore here.

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YouTube recently reported that views from mobile devices now account for a quarter of total usage on the video service. YouTube’s Robert Kyncl said mobile views have risen from 6 percent of the total to 25 percent over the past 18 months.

Bytemobile has seen this trend, and in our latest analytics report analyzed the connection between the two leading mobile apps, Facebook and Youtube. The analysis found that the largest majority of data volume generated by the Facebook app accessing other sites, is via Youtube, at 24%. To find out the top 10 sites to which Facebook drives traffic to, download the full report here.

- Anna Yong