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Autor: University of Cape Town and Microsoft Research India
This study explores mobile Internet use in South Africa. Amonga population of 49 million people, ITU estimates suggest there are 725,000 fixed broadband subscriptions, but over 50 million mobile subscriptions (ITU, 2011a).
A comparably reliable estimate of how many of those 50 million subscriptions are data -ready and data- using is not available. Nonetheless, MXit, a Java -based GPRS ? Internet- lite? chat application boasts at least 13 million users in
South Africa (Bremen, 2011) . Market research suggests that of 8.5 million Internet users in South Africa, 7.9 million
accessed the Internet on their phones in 2011, and that 2.48 million of thes e used only cell phones for their Internet access. As a relatively early adopter of ?mobile – centric? (Gitau et al., 2010) Internet use, South Africa is a good venue to explore more generalizable theory about the role of PAVs in an increasingly mobile age.

This study focuses on older teenage PAV users in low- income neighborhoods of Cape Town, identifying the roles of
PAV and mobile use in their educational, cultural, and health – related web use and civic involvement. The consequences of PAV use for this part icular demographic are particularly important, because young people confront a range of information – related challenges associated with this transitional point between school, tertiary studies, and a forbidding job market where only one in eight adults under 25 years of age finds formal employment.

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