The demand for mobile Internet access and data services such as games and pictures appears to be recession proof, the global head of France Telecom’s (FTE.PA) Orange mobile business said.
Olaf Swantee told reporters in London on Wednesday night that 24 percent of its mobile customers were using 30 megabytes (MB) of data per month.

That figured compared with just 17 percent of the customer base who were using 25 MB in February this year, and it includes customers who took pay as you go and pay monthly contracts. It does not include mobile broadband customers.

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