Romir Monitoring Agency has published its review of Russian Internet usage in 2005 here. Apparently Internet usage dropped 2% in 4Q.
Stunned, shocked and blown away. 4Q is Internet boom time. Over a third of Internet connections are sold in 4Q; very few holidays and lots of dark and cold weather. The correlation between % of conceptions in 4Q and Internet connections sold is probably reasonably close to 1. It's also the BIGGEST month in PC sales (admittedly skewed by Government agencies in last minute panic buying) but the retail channel is also fantastic. So the numbers look very strange.
Weirdly, but good weirdly, Romir has a RSS feed to all the research they have. I say weirdly because none of my other Russia news sources have RSS etc feeds at all. I am now a subscriber.
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20 February 2006
Lies, Damned Lies and Russian Internet Statistics
Romir Monitoring Agency has published its review of Russian Internet usage in 2005 here. Apparently Internet usage dropped 2% in 4Q.
Stunned, shocked and blown away. 4Q is Internet boom time. Over a third of Internet connections are sold in 4Q; very few holidays and lots of dark and cold weather. The correlation between % of conceptions in 4Q and Internet connections sold is probably reasonably close to 1. It's also the BIGGEST month in PC sales (admittedly skewed by Government agencies in last minute panic buying) but the retail channel is also fantastic. So the numbers look very strange.
Weirdly, but good weirdly, Romir has a RSS feed to all the research they have. I say weirdly because none of my other Russia news sources have RSS etc feeds at all. I am now a subscriber.
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