Internet users 'would go mobile'

18:00 2nd July 2008

The benefits of distance learning would be embraced by those on the move if the technology was available to them, it has been suggested.

Point Topic, a broadband market analyst, surveyed people on how they use the internet and found that 62 per cent of users who do not have mobile devices would be interested in being able to access the web while on the go.

At present, the benefits of mobile broadband are experienced by only a minority of UK adults. The research discovered that just six per cent had used the internet via a mobile device in the past month.

Tim Johnson, chief analyst at Point Topic, commented: "The typical mobile internet user who emerges from this research is a member of a privileged minority."

Last month, Jessica McArdle, a spokeswoman at Top 10 Broadband, told vnunet.com that it is "only a matter of time" before mobile broadband modems are given away for free with mobile phone packages.

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