Fully 3.9 million Canadians now use phones to dial up the Internet, Nielsen Online says
BY MISTY HARRIS, CANWEST NEWS SERVICEJUNE 5, 2009
Goodbye keyboard, hello keypad.
Cellphones are poised to elbow personal computers out of their place at the centre of our digital universe, according to the results of a new study.
In the first third-party measurement of its kind, Nielsen Online revealed this week that the number of Canadians accessing the Internet with their cellphones is reaching this "critical mass." Between the final quarter of 2008 and first quarter of 2009, mobile Internet use shot to 21.3 per cent from 16 per cent, with fully 3.9 million Canadians using phones to dial up their online lives.
"It's clear we've crossed a boundary, moving away from the early-adopter phase of Internet-on-the-go to a more mainstream set of users," says Charles Golvin, principal analyst at Forrester Research.
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