
16:32 30th July 2009
Research by price comparison website Moneysupermarket.com has revealed that more than half of mobile internet users do not know their data limit.
Mobile internet is accessed via a dongle that plugs into a laptop or portable media device. Even with a dongle prominently sticking out from their machine, users seem to forget their usage time has a limit.
The website found that charges varied from £15 per gigabyte excess (Vodafone, Orange) to a startling £200 per gigabyte with O2.
James Parker, manager of mobiles and broadband at the site noted it was dongle users most at risk of using up too much connection time "as limits on dongles tend to be much lower than fixed-line packages".
The latest research published by Forrester shows 13 per cent of western consumers can now access the internet on their mobile phones.
Web design courses now help people retraining learn how sites can be created specifically for mobile phones.
