Mobile web usage surges forward in the US

The mobile web tech vendor Bango has published statistics which it says ‘confirm that the United States is at the forefront of mobile web growth with a three fold increase in usage over the last year, taking it to second position behind the UK.’ According to Bango, the top five countries accessing the mobile web via Bango in April 2007 are the UK (27%), the US (21%), South Africa (11%), India (9%) and Indonesia (3%). Bango works as a so-called ‘global exchange’ for the mobile web and can detect users from more than 190 countries who are using the mobile web.