Latinos Mobile Internet Access Usage Greatly Increases

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Recently, the Pew Research Center released a report in July that showed Latinos are heavily reliant on their mobile phones for their Internet access. Latinos utilized their mobile phones for this purpose more than any other ethnicities. Since 2012, according to the report, the percentage of Latino adults who used mobile devices to access the Internet rose from 76% to 94% in 2015.

“While Latinos have lagged other groups in accessing the internet and having broadband at home, they have been among the most likely to own a smartphone, to live in a household without a landline phone where only a cellphone is available and to access the internet from a mobile device,” Pew Researchers said.

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With over 55 million Latinos living in the United States, this is a large and growing audience. Latinos are also one of the youngest groups in the country; more than half of all Latinos in the U.S. are under the age of 18 years old.