A new IDC report predicts that US mobile Internet use will overtake similar use through PCs and other wired devices by 2015. The number of users using smartphones, tablets and other wireless devices to access the Internet will grow at a compound annual growth rate (CAGR) of 16.6% between 2010 and 2015, a rate presumably higher than that for wired devices.
“Forget what we have taken for granted on how consumers use the Internet,” said Karsten Weide, research vice president, Media and Entertainment. “Soon, more users will access the Web using mobile devices than using PCs, and it’s going to make the Internet a very different place.”
Western Europe and Japan are expected to follow this trend as well.
IDC also expects that the global number of Internet users will grow from 2 billion in 2010 to 2.7 billion in 2015. B2C ecommerce and online advertising will continue to grow as well and will reach US$1,285 billion and US$138 billion respectively in 2015.