It's getting easier to cut land lines and rely only on mobile telecom.
More than 60 percent of adult Americans have either
accessed the Internet with a wireless connection away from home or work
or used a non-voice data application using their cell phone or PDA,
according to the latest poll from the Pew Internet and American Life
Project.
This
transformation from stationary to mobile access to the Internet is also
noticeable in the Pew poll, with more than half—51 percent—of Americans
saying they would rather give up their television or land-line
telephones than part with their cell phones. It is a sharp reversal from five years ago, when only 38 percent said their cell phones "would be very hard to give up."
"People's growing reliance on their cell phones, together with
wireless Internet access from laptops, suggests a shift in expectations
about cyberspace," John B. Horrigan, associate director of the Pew
Internet Project and author of the report, said in a statement. "For
many people, access to digital information and resources is an 'always
present' utility for answering questions and documenting what is going
on around them through photos or video recording."
Text messaging
ranks as the top non-voice application, with 31 percent of the
respondents reporting they send messages on a daily basis. Overall, 58
percent reported they have used text messaging at least once. Using a
mobile device to take and send photos ranked second, with 15 percent
moving photos on a typical day.
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