By Siobhan O’Leary

Mobile Internet use is growing in leaps and bounds in Germany thanks to new devices on the market and lower monthly rates, reports the Boersenblatt. Unit sales for smartphones are expected to grow by 47% in 2010, to 8.2 million units (with sales in euros likely to grow 33%, to 1.5 billion euros), based on the tech firm BITKOM’s study using data from the European Information Technology Observatory (EITO). It’s no surprise then that mobile Internet use is also on the rise, with the amount of data transmitted wirelessly nearly quadrupling to 40 million gigabytes in the past year.