More Internet users mobile than wired in Japan
The number of Internet users in Japan accessing from cellphones exceeded those using it from personal computers in 2005, according to a government report published Tuesday.
At the end of the year there were 69.2 million people using the Internet from mobile devices, compared to 66 million conventional PC users, the Ministry of Information and Communications' annual "Information and Communications in Japan" white paper said. Of these two user groups, 48.6 million use both a mobile device and a conventional PC, it said, giving Japan a total Internet population of 85.3 million users. That's equivalent to two in every three people in the country.
Interesting stat...and promising too!
I track mobile research & usage trends for a page I'm putting up on the future of mobile economy, and this is one area of keen interest to me - the mobile web browsing phenomenon...I'm quite amazed by the stat, mainly because web access from the mobile is not very comfortable today.
If you have such a good number doing it even when it is not so comfortable, just imagine what the mobile browing potential is in future!
NS @ Mobinomy - For the Mobile Economy
Posted by Ecacofonix | 11:08 PM
You have a quiet interesting collection of information about mobile research, thanks for shared it.
If you have such a good number doing it even when it is not so comfortable, just imagine what the mobile browing potential is in future!
Yeah, that's why we're working on that :)
Posted by Pedro Santana | 11:33 PM