45% of Spain internet users “almost constantly” connected
This research, developed by the Association for Media Research, collects the results of 19,633 questionnaires made to Internet users of 14 or older who visit Spanish websites. More about Spain internet habits below.
It took place between October 16 and December 9, 2018. The report shows information about social networks, online privacy and exposure to fake news, mobiles, etc.
According to the AIMC study, the mobile phone remains the main Internet access device, a privileged position since 2016, when it surpassed desktop computers for the first time. Thus, the data show that 43.4% of the population uses a mobile phone to access the Internet, an increase of 6.5% with respect to the previous year. The next device is the desktop computer with 26.2%, the notebook with 24.2%, and the tablets with a modest 5.4%.
This is consistent with the Internet access data, and 45% of respondents said they were “almost constantly” actively connected. According to the AIMC, “if we add to this group of individuals those who declare access to the Internet” several times a day, “the figure reaches almost all of the interviewees (89.5%)”.
As for the activities that we do most on the mobile, 84.9% use it to check the mail. Followed by instant messaging services with 78.4%, navigation with 76.1%, social networks with 69.7%, and reading current news with 65.3%. As a curious fact, six out of ten respondents use their mobile devices to watch videos, although only two out of ten are dedicated to uploading them.
WhatsApp remains the most used instant messaging application in Spain, far above Facebook, Telegram or Instagram.The average cost per gigabyte among the three cheapest countries for mobile data were India $0.26, Kyrgyzstan $0.27 and Kazakhstan $0.49 .
