Internet-related revenues grew 15 to 25 per cent to 4Q2008, says ABI Research.
The growth of the mobile web was good news in a report dominated by the depressing revelation that overall ARPU dropped between 5 per cent and 15 per cent.
Perhaps surprisingly the biggest falls were in China, India and a number of other Asian markets (over ten per cent). In Europe the ARPU contraction was in the range of five to eight per cent.
ABI states that mobile data (messaging and mobile Internet) contributes 38 per cent of Japanese ARPUs, and around 25 to 30 per cent for many European operators.
The researcher expects mobile Internet revenues to continue growing robustly in spite of the economic downturn in 2009.
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