Mobile phone becomes a common tool for accessing internet for Indonesian people. Today, 62% of internet user in Indonesia, access the internet though a mobile phone. This number is a 40% increase of the number in 2009. In the same period of time, internet café becomes less popular due to 34% customer loss.

Other than increasing, mobile phone internet user also spends more time on their mobile phone accessing the internet. When last year the average of time spent is 8 hours per week, this year the number increases to 10 hours per week.

Those facts are revealed in the research by Yahoo! TNS Net Index. The research by Yahoo! in cooperation with TNS is aiming to learn the behavior of internet user in Indonesia as well giving a big strategic image about internet user in Indonesia. The result of this fourth research is announced on Monday.

20% of respondents are accessing internet with smartphone. Although still dominated by featured phone user, the number of its user is 10% less than the year 2011.

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