Over one-fifth of internet users in Latin America are mobile-only, according to the latest data from YouGov and the Reuters Institute for the Study of Journalism. Across the four countries studied in 2019, 20.7% said they only use a smartphone. This is up from 12.8% in 2017.
Mobile-only penetration is highest in Chile at 22.5%, while Mexico is close behind at 21.6%. Both Argentina and Mexico recorded the largest growth between 2017 and 2019, rising 9.7 and 9.4 percentage points respectively.
This comes as mobile data costshave fallen across the region and network speeds are forecast to...