Mobile 'Net: Doesnt Matter If Youre Black or White

Forty-eight percent of African-Americans have at one time used their mobile device to access the Internet for information, e-mailing or instant messaging, half again the national average of 32 percent.

Twenty-nine percent of African-Americans use the Internet on their handheld on an average day, also about half again the national average of 19 percent.

Compared with 2007, when 12 percent of African-Americans used the Internet on their mobile on the average day, use of the mobile internet is up by 141 percent.

By a 59 percent to 45 percent margin, white Americans are more likely to go online using a computer on a typical day than African Americans.

When mobile devices are included in the mix, the gap is cut in half; 61 percent of whites go online on the average day when mobile access is included while 54 percent of African-Americans do.

Looking across a range of digital activities – some done online typically using a computer and others being non-voice data activities on a mobile device – African-American and white Americans, on average, do the same number of activities.