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The UK is currently beating the US in terms the percentage of mobile phone users who are surfing the net on their handset, the latest research has shown.

A combined study carried out by comScore and Telephia has discovered that 5.7 million individuals in the UK accessed the internet via a mobile phone in January of this year. This is compared with the 30 million Brits over the age of 15 who used a PC to surf the web in the same period.

In comparison, 30 million people in the US used their mobile internet services in January 2007 out of a possible 176 million internet users in the country.

According to Bob Ivins, managing director of comScore Europe, who spoke to vnunet.com: “Similar to the internet ten to 15 years ago, men under the age of 35 are the early adopters of new technology and more likely to use mobile devices to access the mobile web than women or men aged over 35.”

The most popular ports of call when using the internet on a mobile phone in the UK were found to be the BBC, followed by MSN.