Thirty four percent of Internet users have logged onto the Internet using a wireless connection, according to a study by the Pew Internet & American Life Project released yesterday.
Not surprisingly, those who said they’ve accessed the Internet wirelessly tend to be more connected than those who haven’t, the survey of 2,373 adults determined.
For example, 72% of wireless users check their e-mail on a daily basis compared to 63% of home broadband users and 54% of all Internet users, according to Pew Internet.
Also, 46% of wireless users get news online on a typical day, compared to 38% of home broadband users and 31% of all Internet users, according to the survey.
Moreover, 80% of wireless users said they have a broadband connection at home compared to 53% of all other Internet users, according to Pew Internet.
As for devices, one quarter of Internet users said they have a cell phone that connects to the Internet wirelessly and 54% of those said they have used it to get online.
Also, 13% of Internet users have a personal digital assistant that can access the Internet wirelessly, according to Pew Internet. Of those, 82% have used their PDA to go online.
Demographically speaking, wireless users tend to be high-earning, college-educated white males from 30 to 49 years old. For example, 56% percent of the men surveyed said they have used a wireless connection to go online compared to 44% of the women, according to Pew Internet.
Also, 34% of those who said they’ve logged on wirelessly said they had a yearly household income of $75,000 or more, compared to 14% who said they had a yearly household income of less than $30,000.
Moreover, 49% of respondents who said they had logged on wirelessly were from 30 to 49 years old, compared to 19% who were 50 to 64 and 30% who were from 18 to 29, according to Pew Internet.
More than 70% of wireless users said they had at least some college, compared to 6% who said they had less than a high school education.
And while 67% of wireless users said they were white, 14% said they were Hispanic and 12% said they were black.
