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Pew Report on Wireless Internet Use: http://tinyurl.com/ndorge

The report summary highlights the following:

• 56% of all Americans have accessed the internet by wireless means.
• Use of the internet on mobile devices has grown sharply from the end of 2007 to the beginning of 2009.
• African Americans are the most active users of the mobile internet – and their use of it is also growing the fastest. This means the digital divide between African Americans and white Americans diminishes when mobile use is taken into account.
• Broader measures of use of mobile digital resources also show fast growth from the end of 2007 to the beginning of 2009.
• Other access devices – iPods, game consoles, or e-books – for now play a small role in people’s wireless online habits.
• When mobile users are away from home or the office, they like mobile access to stay in touch with others, but also to access information on the go.

Oxford Internet Institute’s “The Internet in Britain 2009″ sheds important light on the attitudes of non-users:
“Digital Britain is heavily focused on government investment in infrastructures and pilot projects, supported in part by a tax on fixed copper lines and a governmental ‘Digital Delivery Agency’. The OxIS 2009 survey indicates that the major issues are neither infrastructures nor innovation. The key concerns are the attitudes and beliefs of individuals uninterested in the Internet. It will be far less expensive and more effective to focus on informing those who think the Internet is irrelevant to their lives than on building information super-highway projects in the 21st Century.”

http://fm.schmoller.net/2009/06/oxford-internet-institutes-the-internet-in-britain-2009-sheds-important-light-on-the-attitudes-of-no.html

via Norbert Pachler