Some 16 million mobile phone users in the UK accessed the internet from their handsets in December 2009, according to new figures from the GSM Association (GSMA).
The mobile industry body found that mobile internet users viewed a total of 6.7 billion pages and spent more than 4.8 billion minutes (60 million hours) online during the month.
The most visited website was Facebook, which accounted for nearly half of all the time Britons spent online using their mobile phones (2.2 billion minutes).
The popular and largest social networking site was also the top site in terms of the number of pages viewed (2.6 million) and the number of unique visitors (5 million).
According to the GSMA data, Google sites were second in the list but the GSMA data showed that users spent on average less than 20% of the time on the sites compared to Facebook .
The top ten websites accounted for 70 per cent of mobile phone internet usage and also included Yahoo, eBay and Microsoft .
Mobile Internet Usage Tops 16m In December
Mon, 08 Feb 2010
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