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Wireless Users: 1/3rd Internet Users |
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Written by samc
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Monday, 26 February 2007 |
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Some 34 percent of Internet users surveyed said they have logged on to the Web using a laptop computer, handheld personal digital assistant or cell phone.
Four in ten (39%) internet users have laptop computers and of these laptop users, 80% say their laptops can connect to the internet on a wireless network. Most of the time, those with wireless enabled laptops connect to a wireless network at home, although most also have logged on from someplace other than work or home.
Among laptop users whose machines are capable of connecting to the internet wirelessly:
- 88% of laptop users have at one time logged on using a home wireless network.
- 57% have used a wireless network someplace other than home or work to connect to
the internet.
- 36% have logged using a wireless network at work.
“The growth in wireless networks at home has undoubtedly fuelled the use of laptops to connect wirelessly around the house. One in five (19%) of internet users have wireless networks at home, which is twice the number recorded when the Pew Internet Project asked this question in January 2005, when 10% of internet users had home wireless networks”.
The survey of 798 Internet users has a margin of error of plus or minus 3.8 percentage points. Detailed results were posted on the Web at the Pew site.
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