Smartphones, tablets …: understand the use of the mobile Internet in France in eight developments – TF1

The consumption data via a mobile almost doubled in France in a year and now exceeds one gigabyte (GB) per month in 2015 for active customers Internet , according to the digital barometer presented Friday by the Telecom Regulatory Authority (ARCEP) and the General Council of the economy (CGE).

More than one in two French has a smartphone. This increase in usage of the mobile Internet is mainly due to the sharp increase in the level of equipment of the French in smartphone , now held by 58% of respondents, but also tablet , which is found in the hands of 35% of respondents.

The fixed favorite portable. If, in general, the level of mobile phone equipment tends to stabilize at 92% of the population over 12 years against 90% in 2014, it exceeded for the first time in the telephone sets, down one point to 89%.

The tablet still plesbiscitée. The tablet, which had seen its penetration rate almost doubled between 2013 and 2014, sees his slow curve slightly with an increase of 6 points year, 35%.

Check internet:. use of the French No. 1 Among the uses of French mobile, internet consultation is the first activity, 52% of them before consultation emails (45%) and downloading application (44%), while VoIP is only used by 17% of respondents. Generally, all mobile usage is experiencing very strong growth of around 8 to 10 points between 2014 and 2015.

The younger, more connected. Not surprisingly, this increase hides a very strong disparity of uses for all ages, with 90% of 18-24 year olds who use their smartphone to surf the web against only about 15% of the 70 years and older.

France, above the European average. More broadly, if 86% of French people regularly surf the internet, fixed and mobile, which places France at the top the European average (76%), this concerns almost all 12-29 years (98-100%) against only 38% of 70 and over and still 76% of 60-69 years.

More connected graduates. The study also distinguishes a change Internet usages based on degrees obtained since only 44% of non-graduates go on the Web when substantially all university graduates use.

The digital books behind. If the mobile Internet is now widely entered the uses, it does not hold true for the use of home automation digital books, which are only used by, respectively, 6% and 8% of respondents.

The fifth survey, conducted by the Research Centre for the Study and Observation of Living Conditions (CREDOC), was conducted in face-to-face with a sample of 2209 people representative of the French population aged 12 and over, by the quota method.