Reason for not using another means of Internet access
Replacement of Internet access means in the past and reasons for it
Current Internet users were asked about the reasons that would lead them not to subscribe to another means of access besides the one or those they had at the date of the survey.
Reason for not using another means of Internet access
Figure 8 shows the reasons given by respondents for not using another means of Internet access beside the one(s) they had at the date of the survey:
a) Among respondents who did not have a USB modem mobile access to access the Internet, the main reasons given were the use of a fixed Internet access (54.2%), followed by no need to use a USB modem (47.3%);
b) Among respondents who did not have a mobile phone Internet access, more than half said they did not use this service because they felt no need for it (57.8%), and other reasons for not subscribing were the high price (21.4%) and the fact that the mobile phone was not ready to access the Internet (12.8%);
c) Among respondents who did not have a fixed access to access the Internet, the main reasons given were having no need (47.8%) and the use of mobile Internet (47.2%).
Once again, these results suggest that there is some degree of replacement possibility between USB modem and fixed access, but not between mobile phone access and other means, whether fixed or via USB modem.
Figure 8 - Reasons for not using the access, by means of Internet access
Estimate: (#) Non-reliable estimate; (*) Reliable estimate; (unmarked) Reliable estimate.
Source: ICP-ANACOM, based on the results of the Survey on the means of access to the Internet.
Replacement of Internet access means in the past and reasons for it
About 41.7% of current Internet users had already had USB modem Internet in the past and gave it up, a proportion that was considerably higher than the proportion of respondents who had a fixed Internet access and gave it up (27.6%), and the proportion of respondents who had mobile Internet access using a mobile phone (16.8%) - see Table 13.
|
Proportion of respondents who had another |
Gave up fixed |
Gave up USB modem |
Gave up mobile phone |
|
Yes |
27.6% |
41.7% |
16.8% |
|
No |
70.5% |
58.0% |
83.0% |
|
NA/NR |
1.9% |
0.3% |
0.2% |
|
N |
(699) |
(1 708) |
(2 008) |
Estimate: (#) Non-reliable estimate; (*) Reliable estimate; (unmarked) Reliable estimate.
Source: ICP-ANACOM, based on the results of the Survey on the means of access to the Internet.
It should be noted that in the group of respondents who had had a USB modem in the past, one out of four subscribed to that service from a public policy programme aimed at promoting the access to Information Society (especially e.Iniciativas).
The reasons mentioned for giving up the former means of Internet access differ according to each means of access at stake 1 - see Figure 9.
The cost was only a relevant factor for giving up the access in the case of mobile phone Internet accesses (37.7%). Besides the price, another relevant factor to giving up mobile Internet access from mobile phones was having no need to use such access (50.8%).
In fixed access, the main reason for giving up was the usage of mobile Internet (45.2%), while in mobile accesses the main reason for giving up the former access was the usage of fixed Internet (40.0%). Again, these results lead to the existence of some degree of replacement possibility between the fixed access and the USB modem access. The lack of need to use Internet access was one of the main reasons indicated by users that gave up the USB modem access and the fixed access (38.9% for USB modem users, and 27.2% for fixed access users).
Figure 9 - Reasons for giving up the former access, by means of Internet access
Estimate: (#) Non-reliable estimate; (*) Reliable estimate; (unmarked) Reliable estimate.
Source: ICP-ANACOM, based on the results of the Survey on the means of access to the Internet.
Finally, in order to assess if the reasons for giving up a means of Internet access in the past are similar to those for not adopting that type of access at present, the reasons for giving up in the past were cross-referenced with the current reasons for not subscribing, and it was ascertained that the reasons are identical in most cases - for over 60% of the sample of users without fixed Internet access and without mobile phone Internet access the values coincide, and in the case of users without USB modem the proportion of coinciding answers between the current reasons for not subscribing and the former decision to replace those accesses reaches over 80%.
1 Even if the respondent who answered the question may not have been the person responsible for choosing between keeping or giving up the Internet access, it may be inferred that being an Internet user, the respondent also participates in that decision.
