In China it is already overtaking. The mobile connection, which according to all the experts will surpass the fixed one within a few years, is already doing it now somewhere in the world.
According to the latest statistics published by the Beijing government, which report data from China Internet Network Information Center (CNNIC), in the first half of 2012 more than 388 million Chinese, ie 72,2% of the internet users of the Asian giant used mobile phones or smartphones to surf the web, while only 380 million (70,7%) still do so through the "prehistoric" office desktop PC.
Even fewer, to tell the truth, those who use the PC in the portable version: 242 million, 45,1% of the population active online in all of China. In total, there are 538 million web surfers in and around Beijing, less than half of the total population (39,9%): 55% are men, mostly under 30 and who spend more and more time on the internet (20 hours a week, against 18,7 six months ago).
Almost three quarters of them (72,9%) are residents of large cities, but the "rural" population is growing, the inhabitants of the vast countryside who are also increasingly approaching the world of the internet: 52% of newbies come from places thousands of kilometers away from Beijing or Shanghai. And the debut is already up to date: 60% of them connected for the first time directly from a mobile phone.
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