U.S. Mobile Subscriber Market Shares for January 2010



2010 March, 11th
Genesis Davies
Genesis Davies
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comScore, a company that focuses on measuring digital data, just released their findings for January of this year regarding mobile subscribers. The study showed OEMs (mobile original equipment manufacturers) and smart phone operating systems and was limited to the US. The study was held over a period of three months, ending in Jan.

During the three months that comScore looked at the figures, 234 million US citizens were subscribed to mobile networks. Motorola takes up 22.9% of the market shares, while LG comes in at second place with 21.7%. After these, Samsung has 21.1. The remaining companies drop drastically, with Nokia coming in at 9.1% and RIM only 7.8%.

Smartphones are also popular, but only 42.7 million Americans owned smartphones on average, which was up 18% from the previous three month period. In smartphones, RIM was the leader by a lot, coming in with a full 43% of the market share, having gone up nearly 2% from the previous three months. Following Rim, Apple, Microsoft, Google and Palm. The Google Android is growing in popularity particularly fast.

How are people using their mobile phones? The majority (63.5%) use texting, still on the rise, and 21.7% played games on their phones. A rapidly growing percentage of users were accessing social media sites (Facebook, Twitter, etc.) or blogs. The number doing this has gone up 3.3 since the previous 3 month period.

See the full report here.

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Genesis Davies is a freelance writer and blogger and a work at home mom. She works as account executive for Pamil Visions PR and she also runs a blog for work at home moms, At Home Mom. For Everything PR she covers the news column. Follow Genesis on Twitter or email her at gdavies [at] pamil-visions [dot] net.

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