The newest report from Nielsen about the internet access behavior in South East Asia shows that the usage of mobile phone to access internet is increasing. This survey was not only held in Indonesia but also in South East Asia as a whole. Although it doesn’t mention what countries has been surveyed, Nielsen concluded that in next 12 month the usage of internet access via mobile phone – especially smartphone – will reach 61%. Although accessing internet from home will still dominate as the main accessing media, the number will decrease significantly.

Besides mobile phone, there are 33% people stated that they use handheld devices non-mobile phone such as tablet, iPod touch, and PSP to browse. Although that data does not show that mobile phone is the main media – only 4% in 2010 – but there is culture change which push the high increase of internet usage via mobile phone or other handheld devices. Customers surveyed free to choose any media, even more than one media – it makes the figure of the chart can be more than 50% for some media.

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