---
title: "Have Wireless Internet Access"
description: "That's the percent of internet users who have logged onto the internet using a wireless connection either around the house, at their workplace, or some place else. In other words, one-third of internet users, either with a laptop computer, a handheld personal digital assistant (PDA), or cell phone, have surfed the internet or checked email using means such as WiFi broadband or cell phone networks"
date: "2007-03-12"
authors:
  - name: "Russell Heimlich"
    job_title: "Former web developer"
    link: "https://www.pewresearch.org/staff/russell-heimlich/"
url: "https://www.pewresearch.org/short-reads/2007/03/12/have-wireless-internet-access/"
categories:
  - "Broadband"
  - "Internet Connectivity"
  - "Mobile"
---

# Have Wireless Internet Access

About one in three internet users have logged onto the internet using a wireless connection either around the house, at their workplace, or some place else. Users of wireless access show deeper engagement with cyberspace — at least when focusing on two basic online activities, email and news. Among the 34% of internet users who have gone online wirelessly, 72% check email on the typical day, compared with 63% of home broadband users and 54% of all internet users. Some 46% of wireless users get news online on the typical day, compared with 38% of home broadband users and 31% of all internet users. [Read More](https://www.pewresearch.org/pubs/417/the-world-of-wireless-widens)