Market researchers predict that, by 2015, there will be more people in the U.S. accessing the Internet through mobile devices than through traditional PCs.
"Forget what we have taken for granted on how consumers use the Internet," said Karsten Weide, research vice president, Media and Entertainment. "Soon, more users will access the Web using mobile devices than using PCs, and it's going to make the Internet a very different place."
Weide and his team believe that number of mobile Internet users will grow by an average of 16.6 percent between 2010 and 2015. The number of PC users accessing the Internet will stagnate and then begin to decline, IDC said.
The market research firm did not say when the decline may begin and how severe it will be.
On a global basis, IDC predicts that there will be 2.7 billion Internet users by 2015, up from 2 billion at the end of 2010. In 2015, more that 40 percent of the globe's population will have access to the Internet, according to IDC.
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