14 DAY TRIAL // The Japanese have the most evolved technology and everybody knows that. It should be only natural that they also prove to be the greatest users for it. A new research has proved that the number of people who use the Internet from their mobile phone almost equals that of people using it from the PC.
A total of 53.6 million people in Japan use the handset to access the Internet, while 53.7 million people do this from the PC. These numbers are almost equal and, considering the fast expansion that the use of this service from mobile phones has taken over the years, there are high chances of the mobile Internet users to surpass the PC ones.
The reason for this result is mainly that of the mobility that cellulars have to offer. Three quarters of Japanese use their handsets for sending and checking their email account. Half of them use mobile Internet for news, information or just search and navigation. Almost 40 percent of them rely on this service for games or blogging, which bring a great deal of entertainment.
There is one difference between the mobile and PC Internet using of handset owners. The time spent web browsing on cellulars is considerably lower than that spent on computers. Internet usage on mobile phones is set at about 8 hours per month, compared to about 19 hours when it comes to PC users.
Web usage on handsets seems to target especially the younger audience. Almost 65 percent of it are people under 34, that accounts for 45 percent of PC Internet users. NTT DoCoMo accounts for more than half of the number of people that use their mobile phones for browsing the Web.
These high numbers seem to reflect only the need for mobile services, as little over 10 percent of the respondents were satisfied by the Internet services that operators provide. There is no term of comparison between what handsets and PCs have to offer when it comes to Internet browsing, although this is clearly a highly useful service.