The first-ever Orange Business Index, which looks at the previous year's trends in business mobile communications, shows that average data use across all Orange UK business customers increased by over 150% during 2009. The highest increase was among small business, which saw a 290% increase in data consumption to a monthly average of 16.3MB per user. Medium-sized businesses experienced a 226% increase; a monthly average of 10.9MB per user. Much of this increase in mobile data usage has been driven by the rise in popularity of mobile email and web browsing.
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The number of mobile broadband modem shipments – including USB modems, PC Card modems and wireless routers - grew more than 55% last year, according to ABI Research. That's over 25 million more units, up from 2008's total of 46.4 million to the 2009 total of over 72 million.
ABI's figures show Chinese manufacturer Huawei is the market leader, supplying 54.3% of the world's USB modems and almost half of all PC modems and routers.
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Research from the Mobile Marketing Association and Lightspeed Research has revealed that almost a quarter of all UK, French and German people surveyed had donated to the Haitian Earthquake relief efforts. A total of 28.4% of these donors had used their mobile phones to pledge money; 21.4% via text and 7% by visiting a website from their mobile device.
In the UK, 9% of all donors used text and 8.6% visited a website from their mobile phone. However, mobile usage was much higher in France and Germany, where text donations came from 30% and 26% of all donors respectively.
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