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<strong>Mobile</strong> <strong>Web</strong><br />
<strong>Watch</strong> 2012<br />
Special Edition:<br />
<strong>Germany</strong>, <strong>Austria</strong>,<br />
<strong>Switzerland</strong><br />
<strong>Mobile</strong> Internet-<br />
spawning new growth<br />
opportunities in the<br />
convergence era
Contents<br />
Executive Summary 3<br />
Usage Behavior 6<br />
Drivers of Usage 12<br />
Challenges 16<br />
Opportunities 20<br />
About the Survey 24<br />
Conclusion 26
Executive Summary<br />
<strong>Mobile</strong> devices are rapidly becoming the primary medium to access the<br />
Internet across all age groups in <strong>Germany</strong>, <strong>Austria</strong>, and <strong>Switzerland</strong>. In<br />
a world brimming with smarter smartphones, tablets, notebooks, and<br />
other affordable <strong>Web</strong>-enabled mobile devices, and powered by better<br />
network coverage, faster broadband connections, Wi-Fi networks,<br />
and the explosive growth of mobile apps, the demand for ubiquitous<br />
availability of Internet is only getting stronger.<br />
As the excitement around every new version of a smartphone or<br />
tablet gathers momentum, more and more people in <strong>Germany</strong><br />
alone, for example, there are 30 million mobile Internet users.<br />
Unlike in 2008, when the first <strong>Accenture</strong> survey was conducted<br />
to assess mobile Internet usage, German users are no longer<br />
ambiguous about connecting to the Internet on the go, nor are<br />
they deterred by the cost of data connection. The fifth edition<br />
of the <strong>Mobile</strong> <strong>Web</strong> <strong>Watch</strong> confirms that mobile Internet usage,<br />
which first started gaining significant momentum in the 2009<br />
survey, continues to be on an upward trajectory in delete gap<br />
between 2012. Respondents in <strong>Germany</strong>, for example, are<br />
accessing the Internet on their smartphones, tablets and netbooks<br />
not just for e-mails but also to buy products, compare prices,<br />
monitor the weather, download videos, and keep up with news.<br />
Indeed, there has been a dramatic jump in mobile Internet usage<br />
with users nearly doubling since 2011.<br />
Significantly, this trend of increasing mobile Internet usage is<br />
taking place simultaneously with the growing use of stationary<br />
devices such as personal computer, TV and gaming consoles to<br />
access the Internet. The boundaries between devices are clearly<br />
blurring in this multi-device and multi-platform environment.<br />
The survey results for <strong>Germany</strong>, <strong>Austria</strong> and <strong>Switzerland</strong> mirror<br />
the findings in ten other countries from Europe, Latin America<br />
and South Africa—the countries that have been included for the<br />
first time in the <strong>Mobile</strong> <strong>Web</strong> <strong>Watch</strong> survey. The major highlight<br />
of the survey is that mobile Internet usage is on the rise across<br />
mature and emerging markets, and also across age groups.<br />
Indeed, it has now reached the stage when market players across<br />
communications, media and technology should look forward to<br />
business opportunities and the operational efficiencies of a mass<br />
market. That is, if they are prepared for it.<br />
<strong>Mobile</strong> <strong>Web</strong> <strong>Watch</strong>, 2012, brings to the fore five key trends in the<br />
digital consumer’s behavior that have implications not only for<br />
players in telecommunications, media and technology, but also for<br />
those in industries such as retail and automotive, and in utilities.<br />
A key finding of the survey is that a majority of Internet users<br />
connected to the Internet with a mobile device in the past year,<br />
with smartphones emerging as the most popular mobile Internet<br />
access medium. In fact, activities or transactions on mobile<br />
Internet have become so much a part of daily life that those who<br />
don’t own a mobile <strong>Web</strong>-enabled device intend to buy one soon.<br />
The survey identifies usability and mobile apps as the primary<br />
drivers of mobile Internet use, with a higher proportion of users<br />
having downloaded programs and apps on their mobile devices in<br />
the past year.<br />
Consumers are now more willing than ever before to pay for<br />
premium services. The survey also identifies mobile payments<br />
as a significant growth avenue with growing use and awareness<br />
of these services. The opportunity in augmented reality services<br />
is huge with half the mobile Internet users surveyed expressing<br />
interest or planning to use these services in the future. In fact, a<br />
large segment is even willing to pay for cloud services.<br />
A key driver of mobile Internet usage has been significant<br />
improvements in network quality and coverage over the years—<br />
the user’s primary criterion in selecting a service provider. The<br />
survey highlights how consumers are increasingly looking for<br />
superior Internet experiences on their mobile devices, similar<br />
to what they are used to on their computer or television. While<br />
on-the-go online services, such as news, traffic and travel<br />
information, and banking are of the highest importance to mobile<br />
Internet users, concerns about data security persist, especially<br />
for those using or considering the use of cloud services. With<br />
users expressing annoyance with online advertising, marketing<br />
companies will need to focus on more targeted advertising.<br />
In the following pages, we explore the findings for <strong>Germany</strong>,<br />
<strong>Austria</strong> and <strong>Switzerland</strong> in greater detail and discuss the<br />
implications they may have for companies looking at seizing the<br />
opportunity arising out of the growing use of mobile Internet in<br />
this region.<br />
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• 58%, 71%, 76% of respondents in <strong>Germany</strong>, <strong>Austria</strong> and <strong>Switzerland</strong> respectively,<br />
connected to the Internet through a mobile device.<br />
• 50% of participants in <strong>Germany</strong> connected to the Internet through a smartphone as<br />
compared with 62% and 67% of the survey respondents in <strong>Austria</strong> and <strong>Switzerland</strong>,<br />
respectively.<br />
• There is growing use of netbooks and tablets for mobile Internet: 28% in <strong>Germany</strong> and<br />
around 35% in <strong>Austria</strong> and <strong>Switzerland</strong> did so through a netbook; tablets are more popular<br />
in <strong>Switzerland</strong> (26%) for mobile Internet use than in <strong>Germany</strong> and <strong>Austria</strong> (17% and 16%).<br />
• 59% of men in <strong>Germany</strong> compared to 58% of women used mobile Internet; in <strong>Austria</strong> it was<br />
76% of men vs. 66% of women; <strong>Switzerland</strong> (80% vs. 72%).<br />
• 48% used mobile Internet for personal matters compared with 15% for work-related<br />
matters; <strong>Austria</strong> (59% vs. 22%); <strong>Switzerland</strong> (64% vs. 26%).<br />
• 38% of those above 50 among the respondents in <strong>Germany</strong> use mobile Internet vs. 84% of<br />
those in the age group 14 to 29. (<strong>Austria</strong>: 53% vs. 88%; <strong>Switzerland</strong>: 55% vs. 91%).<br />
• 58% of respondents in <strong>Germany</strong> (<strong>Austria</strong>: 59%, <strong>Switzerland</strong>: 55%) accessed online<br />
communities such as Facebook.<br />
• 50% of respondents in <strong>Germany</strong> (<strong>Austria</strong>: 50%, <strong>Switzerland</strong>: 38%) conducted a banking<br />
transaction using their mobile device.<br />
• 67% respondents in <strong>Germany</strong> and <strong>Austria</strong> (<strong>Switzerland</strong>: 78%) downloaded programs or apps<br />
on their mobile device.<br />
• 47% of respondents in <strong>Germany</strong> downloaded or viewed short videos (less than five minutes);<br />
(<strong>Austria</strong>: 57%, <strong>Switzerland</strong>: 55%).<br />
• 74% of respondents have concerns over data<br />
security (<strong>Austria</strong>: 66%, <strong>Switzerland</strong>: 68%).<br />
• 72% are interested in cloud consumer<br />
services (<strong>Austria</strong>: 71%, <strong>Switzerland</strong>: 65%).<br />
• 86% are interested in premium technical<br />
services (<strong>Austria</strong>: 88%, <strong>Switzerland</strong>: 80%).<br />
• 36% accessed the Internet through a TV<br />
and 25% through a gaming console<br />
(<strong>Austria</strong>: 35%, <strong>Switzerland</strong>: 43%).<br />
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Core Findings for <strong>Germany</strong>, <strong>Austria</strong> and <strong>Switzerland</strong><br />
• Growing use of mobile Internet<br />
<strong>Mobile</strong> Internet usage is rising across countries. For example, in<br />
<strong>Germany</strong> alone, there are 30 million users of mobile Internet-a<br />
dramatic rise from 28 percent in the 2011 survey to 58 percent<br />
in 2012 survey. (<strong>Austria</strong>: 71 percent in 2012; <strong>Switzerland</strong>: 76<br />
percent).<br />
• Narrowing gender gap<br />
<strong>Germany</strong> has bridged the gender gap use with 59 percent of<br />
men accessing mobile Internet compared with 58 percent of<br />
women, with 59 percent of men accessing mobile Internet as<br />
compared wirh 58 percent women. In the previous survey, only<br />
17 percent of women accessed the Internet through mobile<br />
devices as against 37 percent of men. In <strong>Austria</strong>, the gender<br />
differences are wider at 76 percent vs. 66 percent. The gap is<br />
also narrowing in <strong>Switzerland</strong> (80 percent vs. 72 percent).<br />
• More personal than work-related use<br />
48 percent of the respondents in <strong>Germany</strong> (<strong>Austria</strong>: 59 percent,<br />
<strong>Switzerland</strong>: 64 percent) accessing the <strong>Web</strong> on a smartphone<br />
did so for personal matters against 15 percent (<strong>Austria</strong>: 22<br />
percent, <strong>Switzerland</strong>: 26 percent) for work-related matters.<br />
• Finally the world is always on<br />
85 percent use their mobile device to access the Internet once a<br />
day or more. Of those accessing online communities, Twitter or<br />
mobile blogging, over 80 percent do so more than once a week.<br />
• Gen X showing growing appetite for mobile over Internet<br />
A little over 80 percent of those in 14-29 age bracket accessed<br />
the Internet on a mobile device, but at least 38 percent of those<br />
above the age of 50 were also involved in such activities in<br />
<strong>Germany</strong>; <strong>Austria</strong> (53 percent vs. 88 percent), <strong>Switzerland</strong> (55<br />
percent vs. 91 percent).<br />
• There is an app for everything<br />
A majority of mobile Internet users in <strong>Germany</strong> (58 percent),<br />
<strong>Austria</strong> (59 percent) and <strong>Switzerland</strong> (55 percent) used their<br />
mobile device to access online communities such as Facebook.<br />
However, these numbers were below the total survey average<br />
of 62 percent. In the case of mobile banking, the usage in<br />
<strong>Germany</strong> (50 percent) was higher than the average of 46<br />
percent of all respondents in the survey. Marginally fewer users<br />
in <strong>Germany</strong> and <strong>Austria</strong> (67 percent) downloaded programs or<br />
apps on their mobile device compared to 71 percent across all<br />
the surveyed countries.<br />
• Videos on mobile grabbing eyeballs<br />
47 percent of the users in <strong>Germany</strong>, 57 percent in <strong>Austria</strong> and<br />
55 percent in <strong>Switzerland</strong> downloaded or viewed short videos<br />
of less than five minutes as against the survey average of 57<br />
percent.<br />
• Quality is king<br />
Quality of the network and coverage are the most important<br />
criteria in choosing a network provider for access to the<br />
Internet over a mobile device while cost of data is ranked the<br />
fourth-most important factor, behind connection speed.<br />
• Data security concerns impede mass adoption<br />
More mobile Internet users in <strong>Germany</strong> (74 percent) than in<br />
other countries (70 percent) are concerned about data security.<br />
The comparable data for <strong>Austria</strong> and <strong>Switzerland</strong> is 66 percent<br />
and 68 percent, respectively. Data costs are a concern for only<br />
10 percent of the German users as compared to 23 percent<br />
of the global survey average. Even fewer users (5 percent) in<br />
<strong>Austria</strong> cite data costs as higher than expected.<br />
• Opportunity to monetize new services<br />
86 percent of respondents in <strong>Germany</strong>, 88 percent in <strong>Austria</strong><br />
and 80 percent in <strong>Switzerland</strong> are interested in premium<br />
technical services; 72 percent (<strong>Germany</strong>), 71 percent (<strong>Austria</strong>)<br />
and 65 percent (<strong>Switzerland</strong>) are interested in cloud services.<br />
Half the respondents in <strong>Germany</strong>, for example, are even willing<br />
to pay up to €10 for premium services.<br />
5
Usage Behavior<br />
6
Internet through mobile devices<br />
poised to outpace access from<br />
stationary devices?<br />
In <strong>Germany</strong>, the percentage of respondents using the Internet<br />
on the go has risen dramatically from 28 percent in the 2011<br />
survey to the current level of 58 percent. Also, the popularity<br />
of mobile Internet has also grown dramatically in <strong>Austria</strong> and<br />
<strong>Switzerland</strong>, where 71 percent of the respondents (versus 42<br />
percent in 2011) and 76 percent (versus 44 percent in 2011),<br />
respectively, used mobile devices to connect to the Internet.<br />
This upward trend is in line with the results of the other<br />
countries in the survey. An average of 69 percent of Internet<br />
users connected to the <strong>Web</strong> with a mobile device in the past<br />
12 months. Among non mobile Internet users, 40 percent<br />
expressed interested in buying a <strong>Web</strong>-enabled mobile device<br />
in the future, providing greater evidence than before that the<br />
mobile Internet is close to becoming a mass market.<br />
Like in most other countries in the survey, smartphones are<br />
the most preferred mobile devices for Internet access in<br />
<strong>Germany</strong> (50 percent), <strong>Austria</strong> (62 percent) and <strong>Switzerland</strong><br />
(67 percent). The use of tablets is also on the rise among<br />
mobile devices. In <strong>Germany</strong>, for example, 17 percent of the<br />
respondents said they access the Internet through tablets—a<br />
sharp jump from 3 percent in 2011. But more people in<br />
<strong>Switzerland</strong> are likely to be using a tablet for Internet access<br />
(26 percent) than in the other two countries. Netbooks<br />
too are popular with 28 percent of the survey participants<br />
in <strong>Germany</strong> (34 percent and 35 percent in <strong>Austria</strong> and<br />
<strong>Switzerland</strong>, respectively) having connected to the Internet<br />
through this device.<br />
<strong>Mobile</strong> devices used in the past 12 months to access the Internet<br />
Multiselect<br />
Smartphone<br />
Netbook<br />
Tablet<br />
Computer/Laptop<br />
TV<br />
Gaming console<br />
0 10 20 30 40 50 60 70 80 90 10<br />
28% 34%<br />
35%<br />
17%<br />
16%<br />
26%<br />
36%<br />
35%<br />
43%<br />
25%<br />
25%<br />
26%<br />
50% 62%<br />
67%<br />
58% of respondents<br />
(<strong>Germany</strong>) have used<br />
mobile devices to access<br />
the <strong>Web</strong> in the last 12<br />
months<br />
91%<br />
94%<br />
93%<br />
Source: <strong>Mobile</strong> <strong>Web</strong> <strong>Watch</strong> Survey, 2012<br />
Base: <strong>Germany</strong> (n=1,615); <strong>Austria</strong> (n=789); <strong>Switzerland</strong> (n=560); Excluded don't know answer<br />
<strong>Germany</strong> <strong>Austria</strong> <strong>Switzerland</strong><br />
Figure 1a. Internet users connecting to the <strong>Web</strong> through mobile devices.<br />
© 2012 <strong>Accenture</strong>. All rights reserved.<br />
The lure of the mobile Internet is so strong that its use<br />
extends to older generations too. In <strong>Germany</strong>, for example,<br />
27 percent of those above 50 years used the Internet on the<br />
go as compared to only 15 percent in 2011. And, as expected,<br />
the youth are the greatest users of mobile Internet with 80<br />
percent of the participants in the age group of 14 to 39 years.<br />
In <strong>Austria</strong> and <strong>Switzerland</strong>, 83 percent and 92 percent of the<br />
respondents, respectively, aged 14 to 39 years were mobile<br />
Internet users; and at least 40 percent of those above 50<br />
years accessed the <strong>Web</strong> through their mobile devices.<br />
Globally too, the mobile Internet attracts a good mixture of<br />
both the young and the old. Of the 61 percent of respondents<br />
who used smartphones for accessing the Internet, more than<br />
70 percent were in the younger age group (between 14 and<br />
39 years). Interestingly, more than half of those above the age<br />
of 50 used their smartphones for Internet-related activities.<br />
While the overall upward trend is evident across all the<br />
countries that were surveyed, the emerging markets of Brazil,<br />
South Africa and Russia showed the highest adoption of<br />
smartphones (above 70 percent on average) for Internet use.<br />
This is in line with developments in other emerging markets<br />
such as India. These countries, with a dearth of fixed lines,<br />
have been witnessing a hypergrowth mobile phone revolution<br />
for some years now, fuelled in part, by declining costs—both<br />
of devices and subscription rates—and a growing wealthy<br />
middle class. The widespread lack of personal computers,<br />
relatively more expensive than mobile phones, meant that for<br />
many people, the mobile phone would be the first entry into<br />
the Internet world.<br />
92% of respondents<br />
in <strong>Germany</strong> (<strong>Austria</strong>:<br />
95%, <strong>Switzerland</strong>:<br />
94%) have used<br />
stationary devices<br />
to access the <strong>Web</strong><br />
in the last 12 months<br />
• Smartphones are the most<br />
popular mobile access method<br />
to the Internet with 50% of<br />
respondents in <strong>Germany</strong> using<br />
smartphones versus 28% for<br />
netbooks and 17% for tablets.<br />
• Age is a differentiating factor with<br />
82% of those aged 14-29 accessing<br />
the Internet on a mobile device<br />
versus only 27% for people above<br />
50 (<strong>Germany</strong>).<br />
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Strong demand for <strong>Web</strong>-enabled<br />
mobile devices<br />
The plethora of <strong>Web</strong>-enabled mobile devices available<br />
clearly shows growing demand. While the average for all the<br />
countries was 46 percent (respondents claiming their intent<br />
to buy such a device soon), it was around 35 percent for<br />
<strong>Germany</strong>, <strong>Austria</strong> and <strong>Switzerland</strong>. Even those who don’t own<br />
a <strong>Web</strong>-enabled phone have tried to use the Internet through<br />
a mobile device at least once (45 percent in <strong>Germany</strong> as<br />
compared to the average of 60 percent for all countries) or<br />
plan to do in the near future (22 percent versus 45 percent<br />
average of all countries).<br />
While smartphones are the dominant mobile devices for<br />
Internet access, the rising popularity of netbooks and tablets<br />
shows that the digital consumer seeks an array of features<br />
while connecting to the Internet, anywhere, anytime. Indeed,<br />
their increasing use across countries and across demographics<br />
highlights the unprecedented computing power in the hands<br />
of the hyper-connected consumer. In <strong>Germany</strong>, for example,<br />
there has been an upsurge in the number of people using<br />
these devices—jumping up from only 3 percent using tablets<br />
in the 2011 survey to 17 percent in 2012.<br />
The emerging markets lead in terms of future demand too.<br />
For example, more respondents in the emerging markets<br />
than in mature markets, expressed their intention to buy<br />
8<br />
a <strong>Web</strong>-enabled mobile phone in the near future (Brazil 78<br />
percent, Russia 73 percent, Mexico 61 percent, South Africa<br />
57 percent versus an average of 46 percent for all countries<br />
versus 38 percent in <strong>Germany</strong>).<br />
This segmentation of the market by device category<br />
revealed by the survey has implications for not only device<br />
manufacturers but also for players in the communications,<br />
media and technology value chain, such as communication<br />
service providers, device manufacturers, content providers,<br />
communications operators, Internet security companies and<br />
Internet advertisers.<br />
Increasing consumerization of IT at<br />
workplace<br />
According to the survey results for <strong>Germany</strong>, there is a<br />
reversal in the trend of using smartphones for professional<br />
purposes: 15 percent of the people accessing the <strong>Web</strong> on a<br />
smartphone did so for work-related matters versus 48 percent<br />
for personal activities. In the 2011 survey, those doing<br />
work-related activities on smartphones totaled 56 percent<br />
as compared to 25 percent for personal work. This finding<br />
reflects the fact that until recently smartphone was driven<br />
by business use on account of high costs. However, in a mass<br />
consumer market, the usage pattern has reversed.
The survey shows that the proportion of professional work<br />
done on other mobile devices such as tablets was higher than<br />
that on smartphones. However, our experience with clients<br />
suggests there is an underlying trend that reveals a blurring<br />
of personal and work-related activities on mobile devices<br />
as the mobile Internet becomes a mass consumer market.<br />
People are using their personal devices increasingly in workrelated<br />
environments. This trend in consumerization of IT has<br />
implications for enterprise IT. Companies are already working<br />
towards allowing consumer devices for work-related activities<br />
to lower costs, increase productivity and improve employee<br />
engagement, creating a mixed device environment where<br />
private and social data from native and <strong>Web</strong> apps reside<br />
alongside mission-critical enterprise data.<br />
Additionally, the survey shows that of those accessing the<br />
Internet a large proportion of them (average of 85 percent<br />
across the surveyed countries and around 80 percent in<br />
<strong>Germany</strong>), do so at least once a day. The frequency of use<br />
only reflects the fact that the mobile or digital consumer now<br />
has a choice of activities that can be conducted on a mobile<br />
phone other than just making phone calls and texting.<br />
Men are still using mobile Internet more frequently than women<br />
<strong>Mobile</strong> devices used in the past 12 months to access the Internet<br />
(e-mails, apps, news, downloads)<br />
% who used a mobile device to access the Internet<br />
Male<br />
Female<br />
82% 80% 79%<br />
78%<br />
77%<br />
78%<br />
77%<br />
72%<br />
75%<br />
75% 76% 76% 76%<br />
73%<br />
70% 71% 70%<br />
66%<br />
66% 68%<br />
62%<br />
48%<br />
65%<br />
63% 64%<br />
53%<br />
59%<br />
58%<br />
South<br />
Africa<br />
<strong>Switzerland</strong><br />
Base: All respondents<br />
Brazil<br />
(n=17,225; Excluded, no answer)<br />
Source: <strong>Mobile</strong> <strong>Web</strong> <strong>Watch</strong> Survey, 2012<br />
Mexico<br />
Spain<br />
<strong>Austria</strong><br />
Ireland<br />
Italy<br />
Figure 1b. Gender differences in mobile Internet access are narrowing.<br />
© 2012 <strong>Accenture</strong>. All rights reserved.<br />
Gender differences in mobile<br />
Internet usage are blurring<br />
The gender differences in the usage pattern continues<br />
to be the same as in previous <strong>Accenture</strong> surveys (which<br />
were limited to three countries—<strong>Austria</strong>, <strong>Switzerland</strong><br />
and <strong>Germany</strong>) with more men (73 percent) than women<br />
(66 percent) using mobile Internet but there is evidence<br />
that the gap is narrowing. For example, in <strong>Germany</strong>, the<br />
differences have nearly disappeared, with 59 percent of the<br />
men surveyed accessing the <strong>Web</strong> through mobile devices<br />
against 58 percent women compared with 37 percent and<br />
17 percent, respectively in 2011. There are, of course, some<br />
countries such as Finland and <strong>Austria</strong> where the gender bias<br />
is significantly wide. However, results from Ireland, where<br />
the reverse situation exists with 78 percent of women and<br />
76 percent of men using mobile Internet, also suggest mobile<br />
Internet use may eventually follow the overall demographic<br />
gender profile of the country in time.<br />
AVG<br />
Russia<br />
Finland<br />
United<br />
Kingdom<br />
France<br />
<strong>Germany</strong><br />
8<br />
9
Growing use of mobile Internet for<br />
e-mail, phone or video calls and<br />
social media<br />
Receiving and sending e-mails continues to be the most<br />
pervasive use of the Internet on mobile devices in <strong>Germany</strong><br />
with 65 percent (<strong>Austria</strong>: 69 percent, <strong>Switzerland</strong>: 73<br />
percent) using an e-mail program installed on their mobile<br />
device, while 58 percent used the website of an e-mail<br />
provider (<strong>Austria</strong>: 57 percent, <strong>Switzerland</strong> 59 percent). This<br />
falls marginally lower than the average for all countries –70<br />
percent and 62 percent, respectively.<br />
Phone or video calls via the Internet ranks as another popular<br />
activity among mobile device users in <strong>Germany</strong> (67 percent<br />
of the users indicated this service as “quite and extremely<br />
important”). However, a host of other activities such as<br />
messaging through social media, blogging and tweeting,<br />
and watching videos are also on the rise; 58 percent of<br />
the respondents in <strong>Germany</strong> said they access social media<br />
platforms and online communities through a mobile device,<br />
and 50 percent use instant messaging apps. The data for<br />
<strong>Austria</strong> and <strong>Switzerland</strong> are similar to that of <strong>Germany</strong>.<br />
<strong>Germany</strong> ranks below the all-country average for these online<br />
services with Mexico and South Africa as the top users of<br />
these services, especially instant messaging (84 percent and<br />
80 percent, respectively), and blogging and tweeting (40<br />
percent and 39 percent, respectively). Following closely are<br />
respondents in Brazil (73 percent) and Spain (70 percent).<br />
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The frequency of these activities is also trending upwards in<br />
all countries. The survey results for <strong>Germany</strong> show that of<br />
those into mobile blogging or accessing online communities<br />
or Twitter, over 80 percent did so more than once a week with<br />
younger people more active than older people: 90 percent<br />
of those aged 14-19 compared to 82 percent of those in the<br />
above 50 age bracket. This trend of using mobile devices to<br />
access social media and online communities provides the key<br />
to understanding consumer behavior. Increasingly, mobile<br />
phone manufacturers now focus on providing user-friendly<br />
features or embedded platforms for such activities.
Sending or receiving e-mails is still the most popular activity but others, such as<br />
accessing online communities, blogging and banking, are catching up quickly<br />
Activities carried out on mobile Internet devices<br />
Received and sent e-mails through<br />
a mail program installed on the mobile device<br />
<strong>Mobile</strong> blogging and tweeting<br />
65%<br />
69%<br />
73%<br />
<strong>Germany</strong> <strong>Austria</strong> <strong>Switzerland</strong><br />
Source: <strong>Mobile</strong> <strong>Web</strong> <strong>Watch</strong> Survey, 2012<br />
Base: All respondents using a mobile device to access the Internet (<strong>Germany</strong> n=895; <strong>Austria</strong> n=509; <strong>Switzerland</strong> n=399; both personal and work-related)<br />
• Sending or receiving e-mail is the most<br />
popular activity among German mobile<br />
Internet users with 65% using<br />
their mobile device.<br />
Received and sent e-mails via the<br />
website of an e-mail provider<br />
58%<br />
57%<br />
59%<br />
Accessed online communities/platforms<br />
(MySpace, StudiVZ, Facebook, Xing, Tuenti)<br />
58%<br />
59%<br />
55%<br />
• In <strong>Germany</strong> 58% used their mobile<br />
device to access online communities<br />
such as Facebook, 50% for<br />
instant messaging, while 17%<br />
Used instant messaging<br />
(AOL, Yahoo, Skype, Windows Instant<br />
Messenger, G Talk, Whatsapp, BBM)<br />
50%<br />
42%<br />
54%<br />
used it for tweeting and blogging.<br />
<strong>Mobile</strong> banking growth is also<br />
evident with 50% using a<br />
50%<br />
mobile device to conduct a<br />
Managed banking transactions<br />
50%<br />
38%<br />
banking transaction.<br />
17%<br />
15%<br />
16%<br />
Figure 1c: Accessing online communities, blogging and mobile payments on the rise.<br />
Base: n=11,884 (global sample size); both personal and work-related<br />
© 2012 <strong>Accenture</strong>. All rights reserved.<br />
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Drivers of <strong>Mobile</strong><br />
Internet Usage<br />
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<strong>Mobile</strong> apps accelerating Internet<br />
use<br />
The survey identifies mobile apps as one of the primary<br />
drivers of mobile Internet use. As a gateway to the Internet,<br />
mobile apps are extremely convenient. Information apps, such<br />
as train schedules and weather news, are the most popular<br />
app download in <strong>Germany</strong> (81 percent), <strong>Austria</strong> (84 percent)<br />
and <strong>Switzerland</strong> (90 percent).<br />
47 percent of the mobile Internet users surveyed in<br />
<strong>Germany</strong> (<strong>Austria</strong>: 57 percent, <strong>Switzerland</strong>: 55 percent) have<br />
downloaded or viewed short videos (of less than five minutes),<br />
checked weather information, retrieved travel information or<br />
read the news on their mobiles.<br />
Which of the following programs or apps have you downloaded<br />
from the Internet on your smartphone/tablet/netbook?<br />
Source: <strong>Mobile</strong> <strong>Web</strong> <strong>Watch</strong> Survey, 2012<br />
Information apps<br />
(train schedules, weather news)<br />
Entertainment apps<br />
(single or group games)<br />
Apps for arranging leisure activities<br />
(events, contacts with friends)<br />
Educational apps<br />
(language-learning programs, reference works)<br />
Organizational apps<br />
(financial spreadsheets, voice recorder<br />
training, planning, nutrition guide)<br />
Apps that help manage your money<br />
(household, bookkeeping, budget calculator)<br />
Fitness and health apps<br />
(training, nutrition guide)<br />
40%<br />
36%<br />
35%<br />
33%<br />
26%<br />
20%<br />
36%<br />
29%<br />
25%<br />
58%<br />
63%<br />
66%<br />
55%<br />
50%<br />
55%<br />
47%<br />
45%<br />
51%<br />
<strong>Germany</strong> <strong>Austria</strong> <strong>Switzerland</strong><br />
81%<br />
84%<br />
90%<br />
Base: All respondents who download apps for any use (<strong>Germany</strong> n=625, <strong>Austria</strong> n=370, <strong>Switzerland</strong> n=328, both personal)<br />
Figure 2a. <strong>Mobile</strong> apps fuelling Internet use through mobile devices.<br />
© 2012 <strong>Accenture</strong>. All rights reserved.<br />
The survey confirms that apps are the most popular among<br />
the youth with a higher proportion of those aged 14-29 years,<br />
in <strong>Germany</strong> for example, downloading apps (76 percent in the<br />
14-19 age group and 82 percent in the 20-29 age bracket)<br />
and 61 percent in the 14-19 age group and 43 percent in the<br />
20-29 age bracket, downloading music. A marginally higher<br />
share of men download programs or apps (69 percent) as<br />
compared to women (65 percent).<br />
The survey’s findings, highlighting the explosive growth<br />
in consumer demand for communication, entertainment,<br />
commercial and social networking activities over the Internet<br />
implies significant and continued investment in infrastructure<br />
upgrades by communication service providers will be<br />
required to keep up with customer needs. Planning for this<br />
investment in a systematic way is critical to ensure adequate<br />
finance is available. Additionally, it needs to be done as part<br />
of an overall strategy capitalizing on the potential revenue<br />
opportunities available to providers by offering new and<br />
additional services through this medium.<br />
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Choice of operating systems and<br />
usability adding to demand<br />
The availability of different operating systems (OS) is also<br />
fuelling the growth of mobile Internet. When it comes to<br />
devices, 85 percent of all the survey participants said that the<br />
OS was the most important factor in selecting a smartphone<br />
or tablet.<br />
Which of the following is your preferred operating system?<br />
50%<br />
46%<br />
34%<br />
26% 27%<br />
44%<br />
Android iOS (Apple)<br />
Microsoft Symbian (Nokia)<br />
Windows<br />
Source: <strong>Mobile</strong> <strong>Web</strong> <strong>Watch</strong> Survey, 2012<br />
Base: Respondents using a smartphone or tablet who see operating system<br />
as 'somewhat/very important'<br />
(<strong>Germany</strong> n=613, <strong>Austria</strong> n= 342, <strong>Switzerland</strong> n=316)<br />
20%<br />
Figure 2b. Operating system is crucial in smartphone<br />
and tablet selection.<br />
© 2012 <strong>Accenture</strong>. All rights reserved.<br />
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15% 15%<br />
The OS is a crucial factor as consumers want easy access to<br />
services they consider important such as communications,<br />
traffic and travel information, banking and access to social<br />
networks.<br />
The most preferred OS in <strong>Germany</strong> is Android (46 percent),<br />
followed by iOS (26 percent) and Microsoft Windows (20<br />
percent). However, in <strong>Switzerland</strong>, the iOS is more popular<br />
than Android (44 percent versus 34 percent).<br />
3% 4% 3%<br />
<strong>Germany</strong> <strong>Austria</strong> <strong>Switzerland</strong><br />
2% 2% 3%<br />
RIM (Blackberry)<br />
2% 2% 1%<br />
Bada (Samsung)
Blurring device boundaries: Using the Internet via TV and gaming consoles<br />
in <strong>Germany</strong><br />
Going beyond drawing the attention of communications, media and technology players toward the growing popularity<br />
and use of mobile Internet, the <strong>Mobile</strong> <strong>Web</strong> <strong>Watch</strong> Survey 2012 also presents interesting findings around multi-device<br />
usage. Ushering in a second stage of evolution with Internet content relocating to multiple devices and platforms,<br />
a remarkably high—92 percent of the respondents in <strong>Germany</strong> (<strong>Austria</strong> 95 percent, <strong>Switzerland</strong> 94 percent)—have<br />
used stationary devices such as personal computer, television (TV) or gaming console—to access the <strong>Web</strong> in the last<br />
12 months. The survey reveals 36 percent of these respondents accessed the Internet through TV, a significant share<br />
considering that the uptake of “smart or connected TV” has been more pronounced only in the last couple of years.<br />
Around a quarter of the respondents have watched movies, TV shows or longer video clips (more than five minutes) over<br />
the Internet on TV.<br />
Another device class that has emerged as an entry platform for consumers’ Internet activities is the gaming console with<br />
25 percent of respondents in <strong>Germany</strong> and <strong>Austria</strong> (<strong>Switzerland</strong> 26 percent) using these for accessing the Internet. Not<br />
surprisingly, the highest penetration of gaming consoles is in the younger age group (44 percent among those between<br />
14 and 19 years) but those in the 30-39 age bracket (38 percent) are also using the Internet via consoles.<br />
With the boundaries of devices becoming increasingly blurred, these findings undoubtedly signal a new leap in<br />
convergence that calls for market players to shape their service offerings to maximize the “connected world” experience<br />
of consumers—both at home and on the go.<br />
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Challenges<br />
Data concerns persist, especially<br />
over cloud services<br />
One of the biggest obstacles to a faster adoption of the<br />
Internet on mobile devices first detected in the 2008 survey<br />
was the concerns over data security. This has extended<br />
to the use of cloud services too. The consumer wants a<br />
secure environment—74 percent of the mobile Internet users<br />
surveyed in <strong>Germany</strong>, 66 percent in <strong>Austria</strong> and 68 percent in<br />
<strong>Switzerland</strong>, were worried about the security of their data. In<br />
the case of those using or considering using cloud services,<br />
these concerns ranged from losing personal data, hacking of<br />
personal data to viruses harming mobile devices (<strong>Germany</strong>: 82<br />
percent, <strong>Austria</strong>: 83 percent, <strong>Switzerland</strong>: 74 percent).<br />
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This finding highlights a significant opportunity for cloud<br />
service providers to work with network service providers to<br />
meet the data security needs of the digital consumer through<br />
adapted tariff plans and appropriate privacy policies.<br />
Additionally, companies across the communications, media<br />
and technology value chain will need to take note of a finding<br />
that reiterates the annoyance factor associated with online<br />
advertising. A higher share of the mobile Internet users—who<br />
most often come across ad banners and coupons on tablets<br />
and advertising through texting on smartphones—find these<br />
services annoying. This again brings to light the growing<br />
struggle of advertising and marketing companies in finding<br />
innovative ways of getting their messages across. Service<br />
providers and content developers will need to explore<br />
opportunities to collaborate with marketing and advertising<br />
companies to overcome this barrier.
Network quality is critical–consumers<br />
are looking for ubiquitous coverage<br />
Consumers want ubiquitous coverage—a network that follows<br />
them everywhere and provides compelling usage experience<br />
anywhere. The survey results for <strong>Germany</strong>, <strong>Austria</strong> and<br />
<strong>Switzerland</strong> show that the subscriber’s primary criterion<br />
in selecting a service provider is the coverage—around 86<br />
percent of the respondents voted for coverage and an almost<br />
equal number chose network quality as the basis for network<br />
selection. This was closely followed by connection speed<br />
(81 percent). This was true across emerging markets too.<br />
In countries such as Mexico, Brazil and South Africa, more<br />
than 90 percent of the survey participants cited network<br />
quality as the most important basis on which they chose their<br />
network provider for mobile Internet access. The network<br />
quality criterion was at the top of the list, which along with<br />
connection speed and cost of data connection, included other<br />
factors such as quality of customer service, device subsidy,<br />
contract period, devices on offer and content from the<br />
service provider, and special offers.<br />
The importance of all these criteria (which more than half<br />
of the respondents find crucial to their decision on network<br />
selection) implies that network providers will need to pay<br />
special attention to two basic things: constantly upgrading<br />
their network and offering innovative subscription packages.<br />
Significant investments in upgrading network quality and<br />
coverage would indeed be a critical driver in driving mobile<br />
Internet usage.<br />
What are the main concerns you have about consumer cloud services?<br />
Multiselect<br />
I am concerned that my personal data<br />
(documents, phone numbers, e-mails)<br />
could be lost<br />
I am worried that other people<br />
would access my data<br />
without my knowledge<br />
I am worried that viruses<br />
and malicious programs<br />
could harm my mobile devices<br />
I am not worried about using<br />
consumer cloud services<br />
18%<br />
Source: <strong>Mobile</strong> <strong>Web</strong> <strong>Watch</strong> Survey, 2012<br />
Base: All respondents interested in cloud/data storage services<br />
(<strong>Germany</strong> n=364, <strong>Austria</strong> n=194, <strong>Switzerland</strong> n=165)<br />
28%<br />
27%<br />
25%<br />
17%<br />
26%<br />
45%<br />
36%<br />
46%<br />
52%<br />
55%<br />
49%<br />
Figure 3a. Data security is a concern, especially in consumer cloud services.<br />
© 2012 <strong>Accenture</strong>. All rights reserved.<br />
Cost of mobile Internet access as per<br />
expectations<br />
While the subscriber’s primary criterion in selecting a service<br />
provider is the quality of network, the cost of data connection<br />
falls just outside the top three network selection criteria,<br />
possibly because such costs have stabilized. However, it is still an<br />
important criterion for 81 percent of the respondents in <strong>Germany</strong><br />
(<strong>Austria</strong> 85 percent and <strong>Switzerland</strong> 77 percent). Interestingly,<br />
while a majority (69 percent) of the survey participants in the<br />
three countries felt the monthly cost of mobile Internet access<br />
was within their expectations, only 5 to 8 percent considered it to<br />
be high in <strong>Germany</strong> and <strong>Austria</strong> (and a significantly larger number<br />
(16 percent) in <strong>Switzerland</strong> thought it expensive). The findings<br />
for <strong>Germany</strong> and <strong>Austria</strong> are different from those of the other<br />
countries, where a quarter of respondents felt costs to be higher<br />
than expected.<br />
Ad banners and advertising through<br />
texting considered to be annoying<br />
Additionally, companies across the communications, media and<br />
technology value chain will need to take note of a finding that<br />
reiterates the annoyance factor associated with online advertising.<br />
While a little more than half the respondents in <strong>Switzerland</strong> found<br />
ad banners annoying, 38 percent of the respondents in <strong>Germany</strong><br />
and 47 percent in <strong>Austria</strong> were rather disinclined towards ad<br />
banners. An equal number of people in all three countries also<br />
found advertising through texting annoying. However, mobile<br />
phone owners felt more favorable towards advertising on special<br />
offers and promotions. In <strong>Germany</strong>, for example, more than 50<br />
percent of the participants categorized text messages about<br />
promotions and special offers as informative with only 7 percent<br />
finding such ads annoying. Interestingly, over 20 percent actually<br />
found these ads amusing.<br />
<strong>Germany</strong> <strong>Austria</strong> <strong>Switzerland</strong><br />
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Coverage and quality of network are the most important criteria in<br />
choosing a network provider for access to the Internet on a mobile device<br />
Most important criteria in the choice of a network provider for mobile<br />
Internet access<br />
Coverage<br />
Quality of network<br />
Connection speed<br />
Cost of data connection<br />
Quality of customer service<br />
Past experience with<br />
the provider<br />
The device subsidy<br />
Contract period<br />
Devices on offer from<br />
the network providers<br />
Content available from<br />
the network provider<br />
Special offers<br />
29% 57%<br />
29% 57%<br />
29%<br />
54%<br />
37% 48%<br />
37% 48%<br />
38% 47%<br />
31% 50%<br />
31% 50%<br />
41% 41%<br />
27% 54%<br />
24% 61%<br />
30% 47%<br />
34% 27%<br />
29% 31%<br />
31% 31%<br />
31% 24%<br />
28% 25%<br />
33% 28%<br />
23% 21%<br />
25% 27%<br />
24% 22%<br />
Source: <strong>Mobile</strong> <strong>Web</strong> <strong>Watch</strong> Survey, 2012<br />
Base: All able to choose their personal and work-related network providers<br />
(<strong>Germany</strong> n=1015, <strong>Austria</strong> n=558, <strong>Switzerland</strong> n=433)<br />
Figure 3b. Consumers want good network<br />
quality and coverage.<br />
© 2012 <strong>Accenture</strong>. All rights reserved.<br />
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<strong>Germany</strong> 86%<br />
<strong>Austria</strong> 86%<br />
<strong>Switzerland</strong> 83%<br />
<strong>Germany</strong> 85%<br />
<strong>Austria</strong> 85%<br />
<strong>Switzerland</strong> 85%<br />
<strong>Germany</strong> 81%<br />
<strong>Austria</strong> 81%<br />
<strong>Switzerland</strong> 82%<br />
<strong>Germany</strong> 81%<br />
<strong>Austria</strong> 85%<br />
<strong>Switzerland</strong> 77%<br />
<strong>Germany</strong> 61%<br />
<strong>Austria</strong> 60%<br />
<strong>Switzerland</strong> 62%<br />
<strong>Germany</strong> 55%<br />
<strong>Austria</strong> 53%<br />
<strong>Switzerland</strong> 61%<br />
<strong>Germany</strong> 44%<br />
<strong>Austria</strong> 52%<br />
<strong>Switzerland</strong> 46%<br />
26% 25% <strong>Germany</strong> 51%<br />
23% 21% <strong>Austria</strong> 44%<br />
25% 18% <strong>Switzerland</strong> 43%<br />
23% 15% <strong>Germany</strong> 38%<br />
25% 21% <strong>Austria</strong> 46%<br />
24% 16% <strong>Switzerland</strong> 40%<br />
20% 16% <strong>Germany</strong> 36%<br />
15% 11% <strong>Austria</strong> 26%<br />
19% 18% <strong>Switzerland</strong> 37%<br />
24% 18% <strong>Germany</strong> 42%<br />
23% 15% <strong>Austria</strong> 38%<br />
23% 17% <strong>Switzerland</strong> 40%<br />
Very important<br />
Extremely important<br />
• Coverage and quality<br />
of network were the most<br />
important criteria in choosing a<br />
network provider for Internet<br />
access through a mobile device<br />
• For 86% in <strong>Germany</strong> and <strong>Austria</strong><br />
(<strong>Switzerland</strong>: 83%) coverage<br />
was the most important criterion<br />
• 85% of the respondents in <strong>Germany</strong>,<br />
<strong>Austria</strong> and <strong>Switzerland</strong> said quality<br />
of network was either very important<br />
or extremely important<br />
• Connection speed was the next<br />
most important criterion,<br />
followed by cost
How do you view these advertising messages?<br />
Which statement about the monthly costs of accessing the Internet<br />
through your smartphone/tablet/netbook do you most agree with?<br />
My monthly cost is...<br />
Source: <strong>Mobile</strong> <strong>Web</strong> <strong>Watch</strong> Survey, 2012<br />
Ad banners<br />
(n=6,444)<br />
Advertising through texting<br />
(n=4,679)<br />
Text messages or displays on<br />
special offers or promotions<br />
at a store near you<br />
(n=4,179)<br />
Information on special offers<br />
and promotions sent to your mobile phone<br />
(n=2,131)<br />
Coupons<br />
(n=4,184)<br />
Source: <strong>Mobile</strong> <strong>Web</strong> <strong>Watch</strong> Survey, 2012<br />
7%<br />
10%<br />
10%<br />
7%<br />
8%<br />
10%<br />
More than expected<br />
What is expected<br />
Less than expected<br />
23%<br />
38% 31% 17% 14%<br />
17%<br />
9%<br />
10%<br />
72%<br />
18%<br />
5%<br />
73%<br />
21%<br />
17%<br />
62%<br />
21%<br />
<strong>Germany</strong> <strong>Austria</strong> <strong>Switzerland</strong><br />
Base: All respondents using a mobile device to access the internet (<strong>Germany</strong> n= 934, <strong>Austria</strong> n= 553, <strong>Switzerland</strong> n= 421)<br />
47%<br />
37%<br />
30%<br />
16%<br />
Base: All respondents encountering advertising messages<br />
35%<br />
45%<br />
57%<br />
19%<br />
20%<br />
25%<br />
27%<br />
53%<br />
21%<br />
17%<br />
17%<br />
32%<br />
53%<br />
59%<br />
30%<br />
25%<br />
42%<br />
50%<br />
46%<br />
34%<br />
31%<br />
44%<br />
28%<br />
22%<br />
24%<br />
22%<br />
17%<br />
14%<br />
9%<br />
<strong>Germany</strong><br />
<strong>Austria</strong><br />
10% 8% <strong>Switzerland</strong><br />
13%<br />
22%<br />
22%<br />
22%<br />
23%<br />
21%<br />
21%<br />
24%<br />
26%<br />
21%<br />
11%<br />
12%<br />
8%<br />
<strong>Germany</strong><br />
<strong>Austria</strong><br />
<strong>Switzerland</strong><br />
<strong>Germany</strong><br />
<strong>Austria</strong><br />
<strong>Switzerland</strong><br />
<strong>Germany</strong><br />
<strong>Austria</strong><br />
<strong>Switzerland</strong><br />
<strong>Germany</strong><br />
<strong>Austria</strong><br />
<strong>Switzerland</strong><br />
Annoying Indifferent Informative Amusing<br />
Figure 3c. <strong>Mobile</strong> Internet users find ad banners and advertising through texting annoying.<br />
© 2012 <strong>Accenture</strong>. All rights reserved.<br />
Figure 3d. Monthly costs of accessing the Internet considered to be higher than expected.<br />
© 2012 <strong>Accenture</strong>. All rights reserved.<br />
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Opportunities<br />
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<strong>Mobile</strong> payments—a growth engine<br />
Telecom players, payment gateway companies and enterprises<br />
need to note the growth potential in mobile payments. While<br />
only 11 percent of smartphone and tablet users in <strong>Germany</strong><br />
(<strong>Austria</strong>: 13 percent, <strong>Switzerland</strong>: 10 percent) are currently<br />
using mobile payment services, 84 percent are aware of such<br />
services and an additional 28 percent indicated they would be<br />
interested or plan to use mobile payment apps. Indeed, mobile<br />
banking (m-banking) features quite high among the favored<br />
mobile Internet activities.<br />
Are you making mobile payments on your smartphone/tablet?<br />
Aware<br />
Unaware<br />
84%<br />
16%<br />
Awareness Usage<br />
85%<br />
15%<br />
Figure Source: 4a. <strong>Mobile</strong> <strong>Web</strong> payments—growing <strong>Watch</strong> Survey, 2012 awareness and use.<br />
© Base: 2012 All <strong>Accenture</strong>. respondents All using rights smartphone reserved. or tablet to access the Internet<br />
(n=10,815)<br />
Currently using<br />
Interested<br />
or planning to use<br />
Do not use/not<br />
interested in using<br />
<strong>Germany</strong> <strong>Austria</strong> / <strong>Switzerland</strong> <strong>Germany</strong> <strong>Austria</strong> <strong>Switzerland</strong><br />
Augmented reality<br />
Improved navigation features, lower data costs and availability<br />
of a range of apps are convincing digital consumers about the<br />
value addition of using mobile Internet. New and developing<br />
areas such as Near Field Communications and augmented<br />
reality services are set to push mobile Internet usage to a<br />
whole new level altogether. While only 10 percent of mobile<br />
device owners are also using augmented reality services in<br />
<strong>Germany</strong> (<strong>Austria</strong>: 8 percent, <strong>Switzerland</strong>: 13 percent) more<br />
than half of the respondents are aware of these services and<br />
close to 40 percent are interested in using them.<br />
The survey shows that 50 percent of the respondents have<br />
used their mobile device for banking transactions. Banks<br />
are also increasingly adding the mobile platform to their<br />
mix of distribution channels to meet the growing demand<br />
for mobility. Not surprisingly, marketplace estimates put the<br />
number of m-banking users globally at 500 million by 2010.<br />
11%<br />
26%<br />
62%<br />
13%<br />
27%<br />
60%<br />
10%<br />
28%<br />
62%<br />
This is in line with the survey results in other countries,<br />
with 17 percent of the smartphone and tablet users using<br />
augmented reality services and a further 50 percent<br />
indicating they would be interested or plan to use such<br />
services soon. Overall, 23 percent of the respondents in<br />
emerging markets are using augmented reality services<br />
against 14 percent in mature markets. The intended adoption<br />
in the next 12 months will further widen this gap, with 26<br />
percent of the respondents in emerging markets saying they<br />
plan to use these services against 20 percent in mature<br />
markets.<br />
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Cloud services<br />
A majority of the mobile Internet users (57 percent) are aware<br />
of cloud and data storage services and are currently using<br />
or are planning to use these services (34 percent), according<br />
to the survey results for <strong>Germany</strong> (<strong>Austria</strong>: 54 percent,<br />
<strong>Switzerland</strong>: 65 percent). Moreover, 72 percent of respondents<br />
in <strong>Germany</strong> (<strong>Austria</strong>: 71 percent, <strong>Switzerland</strong>: 65 percent) who<br />
are interested in consumer cloud services are willing to pay<br />
for these.<br />
As expected, there is higher awareness of consumer cloud<br />
services among the younger generation: 63 percent of those<br />
below 30 in <strong>Germany</strong>, for example, are aware of them, and<br />
close to half of them are either using these services or are<br />
planning to do so in the near future. Surprisingly, 48 percent<br />
of those above 50 are also aware of cloud services and 16<br />
percent are either using them or planning to do so.<br />
Awareness of cloud services is marginally higher in emerging<br />
markets (64 percent) than in mature markets (57 percent); the<br />
adoption rate is also expected to be far higher in emerging<br />
countries with half of the respondents saying they are<br />
either using or intend to use these services in the future, as<br />
compared to 33 percent in mature markets.<br />
For which of these services do you use mobile payments through<br />
your smartphone/tablet?<br />
Multiselect<br />
Buying tickets for events<br />
(concerts, cinema, theatre)<br />
Buying train, flight tickets<br />
Buying clothes or shoes<br />
Buying other consumer goods<br />
Buying food or groceries<br />
(n=1,682)<br />
Source: <strong>Mobile</strong> <strong>Web</strong> <strong>Watch</strong> Survey, 2012<br />
17%<br />
18%<br />
29%<br />
24%<br />
9%<br />
18%<br />
33%<br />
31%<br />
63%<br />
54%<br />
54%<br />
Base: All respondents using mobile payment on their mobile device (<strong>Germany</strong> n= 92, <strong>Austria</strong> n=66, <strong>Switzerland</strong> n=41)<br />
46%<br />
51%<br />
Figure 4b. <strong>Mobile</strong> Internet users are willing to pay for premium services.<br />
© 2012 <strong>Accenture</strong>. All rights reserved.<br />
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Willingness to pay for premium<br />
services<br />
While augmented reality services are yet to take off in a big<br />
way, one of the survey findings could have implications for<br />
the pricing strategies of mobile service operators (MSO). Well<br />
over 80 percent of the respondents in <strong>Germany</strong>, <strong>Austria</strong> and<br />
<strong>Switzerland</strong> are willing to pay for premium services and nearly<br />
a quarter are willing to pay €10–20 for premium services.<br />
66%<br />
63%<br />
<strong>Germany</strong> <strong>Austria</strong> <strong>Switzerland</strong>
Rising tablet usage<br />
The growing popularity of tablets to access the Internet,<br />
especially among the youth, is opening up new growth<br />
avenues for businesses. The survey shows that tablets are<br />
used across all age groups, but attracts the highest usage<br />
among those in the age group 14-39. Thirty-three percent of<br />
the tablet users in <strong>Germany</strong>, for example, access the Internet<br />
at least once a day and about 31 percent of them do so<br />
several times a day (<strong>Austria</strong>: 37/21 percent, <strong>Switzerland</strong> 27/32<br />
percent). A significantly large percentage of the respondents<br />
who own tablets (83 percent) in <strong>Germany</strong> say the most<br />
How often do you normally<br />
use Internet services?<br />
Access the Internet using<br />
tablet (at least once a day)<br />
Access the Internet using<br />
tablet (several times a day)<br />
Source: <strong>Mobile</strong> <strong>Web</strong> <strong>Watch</strong> Survey, 2012<br />
33%<br />
37%<br />
27%<br />
31%<br />
21%<br />
32%<br />
<strong>Germany</strong> <strong>Austria</strong> <strong>Switzerland</strong><br />
Base: All respondents using a tablet accessing the Internet<br />
(<strong>Germany</strong> n= 934, <strong>Austria</strong> n=553, <strong>Germany</strong> n= 421)<br />
Figure 5. Frequency of mobile users accessing the Internet using a tablet<br />
© 2012 <strong>Accenture</strong>. All rights reserved.<br />
important Internet activity involved buying products, such as<br />
books from Amazon, online. This was followed by comparing<br />
prices (71 percent). Other Internet activities include reading<br />
news and checking travel and weather information.<br />
Across other countries in the survey, a majority of the<br />
respondents (66 percent) say that their Internet activities<br />
revolved around downloading and viewing short videos which<br />
run for less than five minutes while 52 percent watched<br />
movies, TV shows or longer video clips (more than five<br />
minutes). Other significant activities are checking prices (61<br />
percent) and weather information or forecasts (59 percent),<br />
reading news (58 percent) and obtaining travel directions.<br />
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About the Survey<br />
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The fifth edition of the <strong>Accenture</strong> <strong>Mobile</strong> <strong>Web</strong> <strong>Watch</strong> survey<br />
extends beyond the three countries (<strong>Austria</strong>, <strong>Switzerland</strong><br />
and <strong>Germany</strong>) of the previous two surveys to include 10<br />
more countries: Brazil, Finland, France, Ireland, Italy, Mexico,<br />
Russia, South Africa, Spain and the UK. The 15-minute online<br />
survey, covering 17,225 respondents, was conducted in native<br />
languages with a sample representative of Internet users<br />
across age, gender (51 percent men and 49 percent women),<br />
and incomes.<br />
# Interviews by country<br />
<strong>Austria</strong><br />
789<br />
Brazil<br />
1,624<br />
Finland<br />
1,085<br />
France<br />
1,615<br />
<strong>Germany</strong><br />
1,615<br />
Ireland<br />
785<br />
Italy<br />
1,616<br />
Mexico<br />
1,611<br />
Russia<br />
1,637<br />
South Africa 1,058<br />
Spain<br />
1,615<br />
<strong>Switzerland</strong> 560<br />
United Kingdom 1,615<br />
Total<br />
17,225<br />
The survey explored the use of smartphones, tablets,<br />
netbooks, personal computers, television and gaming consoles<br />
to access the Internet; frequency of mobile Internet usage;<br />
range of activities on the Internet; use of social media,<br />
online platforms and online services on mobile devices;<br />
brand preferences for devices and operating systems;<br />
the consumer’s criteria for network selection, ability and<br />
willingness to pay for premium services; and the barriers to<br />
the adoption of mobile Internet.<br />
Age<br />
14-19 years<br />
20-29 years<br />
30-39 years<br />
40-49 years<br />
More than 50 years<br />
10%<br />
24%<br />
21%<br />
18%<br />
27%<br />
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Conclusion<br />
<strong>Mobile</strong> Internet is Mass Market in <strong>Germany</strong><br />
The upswing continues: After a brief downturn in 2009 and 2010, growth in the market for the mobile<br />
Internet rose sharply from 2011 to the present and has achieved mass-market penetration in <strong>Germany</strong>.<br />
% of Market<br />
Penetration<br />
Market<br />
Customer<br />
Market<br />
Entry<br />
“Early<br />
Adopters”<br />
13%<br />
Figure 6. <strong>Accenture</strong> Analytics<br />
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<strong>Mobile</strong> Phones only<br />
50% in <strong>Germany</strong><br />
18%<br />
Mass Market<br />
Capability<br />
“Bring followers<br />
on board”<br />
17%<br />
Mass Market<br />
Penetration<br />
28%<br />
2008 2009 2010 2011 2012<br />
<strong>Mobile</strong> phones, tablets, notebooks<br />
58% in <strong>Germany</strong><br />
Mass Market<br />
Efficiency<br />
“Handle<br />
Customer Portfolio”<br />
58%<br />
50%<br />
Ideal course<br />
Typical course<br />
Real and projected<br />
course<br />
This shows the<br />
development of mobile<br />
Internet usage via mobile<br />
phones from 2008 - 2012<br />
in <strong>Germany</strong><br />
In 2012 in <strong>Germany</strong>, the<br />
use of the mobile Internet<br />
via mobile phones, tablets<br />
and notebooks was 58<br />
percent
The <strong>Accenture</strong> <strong>Mobile</strong> <strong>Watch</strong> Survey, 2012, again underscores<br />
the need for companies in the mobile Internet business to<br />
focus on the basics first as the mobile Internet mass market<br />
becomes a reality. For communications service providers<br />
(CSPs), that would mean a greater emphasis on building their<br />
network and more bandwidth, and on investing to ensure<br />
better coverage and quality of service. As mobile Internet<br />
usage rises (in <strong>Germany</strong> alone, there are 30 million mobile<br />
Internet users), these improvements in infrastructure can<br />
help the CSPs build enduring relationships with customers<br />
and stay ahead of the competition in this intensely dynamic<br />
environment. These improvements in infrastructure can<br />
help them in building enduring relationships with customers<br />
and staying ahead in this intensely dynamic environment.<br />
The hyper-connected consumer—with unprecedented levels<br />
of computing power thanks to innovative devices such as<br />
smartphones and tablets—is an active participant in the<br />
market and not just a passive recipient of services.<br />
The trend of multi-device <strong>Web</strong> access that the survey<br />
highlights presents a real opportunity for communications,<br />
media and technology companies to outperform the<br />
competition through differentiated, multi-device and<br />
multi-platform offerings. The possibilities associated with a<br />
“connected world” have already been demonstrated through<br />
the growing uptake of connected homes and over-the-top<br />
TV services. Broadcasters, technology companies and service<br />
providers need to brace themselves for a new generation of<br />
<strong>Web</strong> users looking for increased interoperability, multi-device<br />
and multi-platform support, and superior experience.<br />
In this connected world that includes the network and<br />
services (Internet, entertainment, video and gaming), CSPs<br />
are taking on the role of enablers. To outperform as enablers,<br />
CSPs will need to get smarter about their customers and<br />
the way they market to them. Companies that have been<br />
successful in this role are differentiating by leveraging<br />
analytics to process the vast amounts of data that the<br />
consumer generates while using the Internet.<br />
Additionally, as CSPs need to upgrade their infrastructure<br />
continuously to keep pace with customers demands as well as<br />
their data security concerns, a focus on maximizing costefficiency<br />
(whether through outsourcing of customer service<br />
or billing or through back-end integration) could help these<br />
companies balance costs as well as service levels.<br />
As communications, media and technology players try<br />
to monetize the opportunities in the mobile Internet<br />
era (whether in the area of mobile payments, banking<br />
transactions, augmented reality services, cloud services<br />
or apps for tablets and smartphones), collaboration and<br />
innovation will anchor and sustain the new ecosystem.<br />
Collaboration with other service operators on networksharing<br />
strategies could well be the key to balance<br />
consumers’ demand for quality with the inevitable high cost<br />
of infrastructure investments.<br />
With the massive capital investments that will be needed<br />
to keep up with the increasing bandwidth, speed and<br />
quality demands, collaboration among all operators in the<br />
value chain will help in bringing innovative services to<br />
the market. Building collaboration tools, IT and common<br />
industry platforms to incubate and test new ideas could add<br />
significant value to offerings and quickly add capabilities<br />
that the operators currently lack. This will lead to new<br />
alliances and business models, efficient back-office and<br />
business processes as companies build faster go-to-market<br />
strategies and a strong focus on innovation to stay ahead of<br />
the competition. As mobile Internet approaches mass market<br />
stage, the various players in the ecosystem—from mobile<br />
service providers to content generators—will be compelled<br />
to explore avenues for innovation in providing end-to-end<br />
services.<br />
This business imperative for change and innovation is also<br />
applicable to other industries such as retail or banking where<br />
the hyper-connected consumer’s behavior and needs are<br />
already transforming operating models and IT infrastructure.<br />
Such organizations are making use of mobile and cloud-based<br />
customer relationship management technologies to keep<br />
pace with the demand for new and improved capabilities<br />
as consumers increasingly use smartphones and tablets for<br />
online commercial transactions.<br />
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