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> According to Pew Research https://www.pewresearch.org/internet/fact-sheet/mobile/ 15 percent of U.S. adults only access the internet through a mobile device.

That number seemed surprising to me - I actually expected the portion of mobile-only internet users would be significantly higher than that.

Turns out the 15% number means something slightly different. From that Pew Research page:

"Today, 15% of U.S. adults are “smartphone-only” internet users – meaning they own a smartphone but say they do not subscribe to a home broadband service."

So the 15% is people who use the internet exclusively via LTE/5G without paying for home broadband.

(I'm surprised that number isn't higher as well.)




I would guess that the number is pulled down significantly by streaming services and a lot of home broadband connections are 95% TV service, and wifi connections for phones at home is just a bonus.


There’s no small irony that this isn’t age doesn’t render correctly on Safari on iPhone. All the text wraps off the right edge of the phone. -_-


No kidding! This is my first time experimenting with converting Keynote slides into HTML, so I'm not surprised it didn't go perfectly. I just pushed a quick fix for the overflow issue but should probably figure out a longer-term solution.


The text is still overflowing off the right side of the screen on my 13 mini


> So the 15% is people who use the internet exclusively via LTE/5G without paying for home broadband.

Does that factor in people “borrowing” their neighbors WiFi?


Or college kids using campus internet?


>That number seemed surprising to me - I actually expected the portion of mobile-only internet users would be significantly higher than that.

Gen Z is likely higher. Older generations will still use a laptop.

In lower income countries, this number is also higher. Many people do their entire job on their phone. Email is not used often for business. It's chat apps.


That seems like a weird way to measure it in an age of streaming TV.




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