Thursday, February 03, 2011

Wi-Fi Accounts for 50% of mobile user connections to Internet

So says a new study by Bango, as reported by Fierce Broadbandwireless. Rather than attaching over the cellular network, users are turning to Wi-Fi to surf the web.  Wi-Fi accounts for half of mobile device connections to the internet.

Wi-Fi is the primary in-building wireless technology, and people primarily use access the internet on their smartphones and tablets when at home or in the office, so this really isn't such a big surprise.