#8 Mexico

Smartphone users – 12 percent of total mobile phone users

Total number of Smartphone Users – 15 million

Mobile phones aren’t only for use on the go—and that’s the case around the world, where Smartphone owners are at least as likely to text, tweet or skim the internet while on the couch as they are to check the latest sports scores while running errands. But in Mexico, home use beats out actual mobile use by a wide margin.

A Google survey conducted by Ipsos MediaCT and TNS Infratest found that nearly 9 in 10 Smartphone owners in the country used their phones to go online from home. Three-quarters did so from work locations.

Smartphone usage in Mexico—especially usage of the mobile internet—has some unusual characteristics. Owners of second-hand Smartphones who have no credit card or cannot afford a data plan use Wi-Fi hotspots to access the internet.

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