Smartphones to constitute 75% of world's Internet use by 2017: report

LAHORE - About 75 percent of Internet users across the globe would be accessing their content of desire through smart phones by 2017, says a report.

According to the report, the figure is slightly higher than that of 2016 which is 71 percent.

Telecommunication companies are pushed to amalgamate digital distribution and the content to survive in the years when mobile data consumption is rising, said the digital media expert.

A digital media executive said that Internet use rose 30 percent in the last four years from 40 percent to 70 percent which was humungous.

Opinions of different digital media experts was endorsed by move of AT&T when it announced recently that it was planning to purchase Time Warner, a media company for around $85.4 billion.