The mobile becomes the primary means of accessing the Internet – The País.com (Spain)

A user showing a mobile phone. / EFE

For the first time, Mobile has become the main type of Internet connection. In 2014, 67.2% of households access the Net via your smartphone, and (smart phone), surpassing ADSL (66.2%) and the network cable or fiber optic (20.9%), according to the Survey on Equipment and Use of Information and Communication Technologies in Households, the National Statistics Institute.

The mobile phone is also the first device to use to connect the Spanish Network. 81.7% of households use it, compared to 72.2% making it through your laptop or tablet and 53.5% with the desktop computer. Overall, 74.4% of Spanish households have access to the Internet, compared with 69.7% the was in 2013 in Spain there are almost 11.9 million households with Internet access.

The survey shows that the Internet has become more essential than any device. More than 26.2 million people, 76.2% of the population aged 16 to 74, has used the Internet in the last three months. This exceeds by 4.6 points from the previous year. Thus, for the first time nationally, the percentage of Internet users in the past than computer users (73.3% of the population)

With regard to equipment, it is noteworthy that in the last year alone clearly shows expansive growth is the e-book reader (e-reader), growing 5.6 points and is available in 20% of households. The tablets also had a significant rebound as other statistics INE but not collected in their survey because under the category of computers, with laptops and PCs.

Television remains the most ubiquitous computer (99.2% of households), although slightly down on the previous year. 99.1% of households have a telephone (fixed or mobile). 75.4% have both types of terminals. 2.7% of households have landline only, while 20.9% have only mobile phone to communicate from home. The provision of landline increases slightly in the last year to 78.2%. The mobile grows to the same extent, which becomes available in 96.4% of households.

Almost one third (32.4%) of users Internet in the last three months reported having used online storage spaces, either to save or share files. The use of cloud services as approaching 8.5 million users

. The INE survey, conducted interviews from January to May each year, highlights the failure of electronic ID: 47.9% of the population say they have DNIe, but 83.2% of those who have not used

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