Solutions to help your business Sign up for our newsletters Join our Community
  • Share

Getting in touch

The CMO Council's Forum to Advance the Mobile Experience has released “The Global Mobile Mindset Audit: Taking the Pulse of the Global Mobile User,” a study that surveyed more than 14,000 mobile users in 37 countries about issues affecting their mobile experiences. We've broken out some select audit data below covering mobile device ownership and the myriad pains and annoyances respondents face when buying or using a mobile device.

More on this Topic

Industry News

Blogs

Briefing Room

TOP PAIN POINTS WHEN BUYING MOBILE DEVICES
Lack of product demos 12%
Features not well-explained 11%
Lack of product knowledge 11%
Slow service 9%
Product not in stock 9%
Attempts to upsell 8%
Source: Global Mobile Mindset Audit

LEADING IRRITANTS AND CONCERNS OF MOBILE DEVICE USERS
Cost of service 34%
Battery life 34%
Losing phone/contact info 26%
Stolen or damaged device 20%
Other people's loud conversations 19%
Disconnect and drop-offs 18%
Source: Global Mobile Mindset Audit

EARLY PURCHASE EXPERIENCE ISSUES
TOO MANY FUNCTIONS I DIDN'T USE 16%
USER MANUALS WERE NOT GOOD 11%
HARD TO CONFIGURE OR CUSTOMIZE 10%
NOT ENOUGH AUDIO VOLUME 10%
COMPLEX FEATURES AND FUNCTIONS 9%
PRODUCT WAS DEFECTIVE 6%
Source: Global Mobile Mindset Audit

Want to use this article? Click here for options!
© 2012 Penton Media Inc.

Learning Library

Featured Content

A time and money saving approach to fiber deployment

Service providers are under tremendous pressure to turn up new services faster then before and, at the same time, to do it at less expense - and intra-office fiber is one of the biggest challenges in terms of both cost and service turn-up.

The Latest

News

From the Blog

Briefingroom

Join the Discussion

Resources

Get more out of Connected Planet by visiting our related resources below:

Connected Planet highlights the next generation of service providers, as well as how their customers use services in new ways.

Subscribe Now

Back to Top