The Indian mobile gaming industry is on the roll. According to a study carried upon by Informate Mobile Intelligence suggests that the mobile users are adapting to mobile games at a rapid pace. To get the actual data on usage Informate developed a metering application and installed it on more than 2000 handsets. This meter tracked how the users used their mobile phones and provides an actual mobile usage data connected to server. This metering application shows growth in the usage of mobile games. Earlier in February 2009, The average  usage (minutes per day) for gaming was  only 5.4 minutes as compared to 32.3 for multimedia, which rose to 7.0 minutes for gaming and 38.2 minutes for multimedia in March 2009. The report also suggests that the choice of game selection differs with the age-group and gender. And the youths between 18-30 age group spend higher than average time spent on games. 

The Informate Mobile Intelligence research also shows that  time spent on mobile phone gaming is around 7.5%  of the total time spent on mobile phones,  among those who play game at least once in a month.