Always worth a look are the regular findings from the Pew Internet and American Life survey.
According to the latest press release “62% of all Americans are part of a wireless, mobile population that participates in digital activities away from home or work. Not only are young people attuned to this kind of access, African Americans and English-speaking Latinos are more likely than white Americans to use non-voice data applications on their cell phones”. More detail on this report here
For more details on the comparitive US and UK markets take a look here for the findings of a survey conducted by Telephia and comScore which indicates that
- 5.7 million people in the U.K. used a mobile device to access the Web during January 2007 compared to the 30 million people age 15 or older who accessed the Web from a PC (either a home or a work machine).
- At 19 percent of the PC-based Internet audience, the U.K. Mobile Web market is similarly developed on a relative basis to the U.S. Mobile Web market, where 30 million (or 19 percent) of the 159 million U.S. PC Web users of a comparable age accessed the Web from a mobile device during the same month.
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