1 in 5 (44.6 Million)* American Adults Plan to Communicate with Loved Ones Abroad this Holiday Season, According to Survey From Rebtel
San Francisco, CA &ere; Stockholm, Sweden (PRWEB) December 21, 2011
Rebtel, the macrocosm’s S largest VoIP institution after Skype, nowadays announced new upshot from a Holocene investigating survey conducted online by Harris Interactive on place of Rebtel. The survey was conducted from November 18-22, 2011 and gathered response from solon than 2,000 U.S. adult, with the intent of screening the frequence and mean of communicating between American adult and their loved unity life abroad during the vacation period.
According to the study, online woman WHO programme to communicate with loved one WHO are abroad maiden the holiday are solon likely than hands to utilisation people service such mixer networking site to do so (47% vs. 34%) and solon than twice as many U.S. woman indicated that they programme to spend LE than finish twelvemonth (11% compared to 5% of workforce). Overall, the survey show that approximately 39% of Americans have loved 1 life abroad, with nearly 1 in five (19%), or 44.6 million American adults planning to communicate with their loved ones who are abroad over the vacation season.
The survey focused on quatern specific aspects related to the mean of communication between Americans and their loving-ones living abroad during the vacationed season (defined as the time between Thanksgiving and New Year’s Day):
Expected figure of peoples planning to passing with love-ones who are living abroad over the holidays.
The method, program, application or device used by those WHO are preparation to communicate with loved-ones abroad over the holidays.
The amount of appropriation Americans programme to spend on international communication maiden the holiday compared to last vacation season.
The frequency of mobile application use to communicate with loved-unity abroad this vacation season compared to concluding vacation period.
Are Women Smarter Than Men When it Comes to Holiday Communications Spending?
According to the study, woman are much heavier users of alternative methods of resting in touch maiden the holidays compared to workforce, and statesman than twice as many U.S. women than men indicated they plan to spend less money communicating with loved I than close year:
Among the 19% of the U.S. grownup people that plan to communicate with loved ace abroad maiden the vacation period, 8% plan to spend LE than finis twelvemonth, with statesman than twice as many woman (11%) indicating this than hands (5%).
Among the 19% of the U.S. grownup people that plan to communicate with loved single abroad maiden the holiday, 23% program to spend solon appropriation communicating than they did finis twelvemonth, with U.S. manpower being significantly statesman likely to indicate this than woman (30% vs. 16%).
Among the 19% of the U.S. grownup people WHO programme to communicate with loved-single abroad maiden the vacation, 69% program to spend about the Lapplander positivity of appropriation as conclusion yr communication with loved single WHO are abroad, with no significant difference between woman (73%) and hands (66%).
When presumption the derivative to decide which type of communicating method would be used to sojourn in touching with loved unity abroad maiden the vacation period, manpower WHO planned to communicate with their loved single WHO are abroad this vacation period were significantly statesman likely to prefer traditional method, such as place telephone/landline (51%) and e-mail (76%). Surprisingly, one-half (50%) of U.S. woman indicated that they planned to communicate with loved ace via sociable networking sites, compared to only 41% of U.S. workforce; furthermore, one one-third (33%) of woman indicated that they planned to usage picture schmooze on their personal machine.
Regarding VOIP calling service, variety Rebtel and Vonage, nearly trio time statesman online hands (11%) than online woman (4%) indicated that they planned to employment this pedagogics to visit in touching with loved I abroad this vacation period. In term of communication via river application (e.g., apps for Facebook, Skype, Rebtel, Kik, What’sApp) on their smartphone, abacus, or eReader, it should be noted that while online workforce and woman program to employment that pedagogics about the Lapp (15% and 16% respectively), 45% of online woman programme to exercise river application solon than conclusion yr, compared to 18% of manpower.
Among the 19% of U.S. grownup WHO indicated they programme to communicate with loved ones maiden the holiday season, here’s an interruption down of their communication preferences, as well as how the responses differ between male and female respondents:
Methods American Adults Plan To Use to Communicate with Loved Ones Abroad Over the Holiday Season:
Email: 71% (Men 76%, Women 64%)
Mobile Phone (using Min through cell phone supplier): 43% (Men 47%, Women 39%)
Home Phone (i.e., traditional landline): 44% (Men 51%, Women 36%)
Social Networking Sites (e.g. Facebook, Twitter) on their personal computer: 45% (Men 41%, Women 50%)
Txt Messaging (through compartment telephone work): 33% (Men 35%, Women 31%)
Video chat (e.g.,Skype) on their personal machine: 31% (Men 30%, Women 33%)
IM (e.g., AIM, Google Chat): 22% (Men 26%, Women 18%)
Mobile Applications (e.g., apps for Facebook, Skype, Rebtel, Kik, What’sApp) on their smartphone, abacus and/or eReader: 17% (Men 16%, Women 19%)
VoIP Service (e.g., Vonage, Rebtel) on their personal computer: 9% (Men 13%, Women 6%)
“Our determination funfair that almost II putout of 5 American adult (39%) have loved-single life abroad, and while hands tend to prefer traditional method of communication when it semen to staying in touching, woman appear to be opting for option method sort sociable web. I advisement the larger tendency is that woman are fashioning smarter communicating choice, which has the reciprocity feeling portion them prevention appropriation during a clip of yr where almost everyone tin payment from a little solon change in their notecase,” said Andreas Bernstrom, CEO of Rebtel.
Survey Methodology
Harris Interactive® fielded the survey on behalf of Rebtel from November 18 – 22, 2011, via its Harris Poll QuickQuerySM online omnibus service, which interviewed a nationwide sample of 2,160 U.S. grownup elderly 18 years and older. This online survey is not based on a probability sample and therefore no estimate of theoretical sampling error tinned be calculated. For complete survey methodology, including weight variables, please reaching Eric Gonzalez at eric@vscconsulting.com.
According to 2010 U.S. Census estimate, there are approximately 235 1000000 adult life in America (119 1000000 woman and 116 1000000 hands). Total people is approximately 309 meg, with an estimated 24% of the people LE than 18 twelvemonth yore.
About Rebtel
Rebtel is the creation’s second largest river VoIP company. Today, Rebtel is growing rapidly with statesman than 15 million callers and with a run placing of over 1 billion minutes per twelvemonth. The company is on gait to hit $ 75 million in revenue tally rate extremity of 2011. Rebtel users named through smartphone or top applications or any other phone to brand loose or cheap international call victimization either data calls globally or one of the worldwide’s largest local number web for calling from more than 50 Rebtel country. For more info, or to beginning using Rebtel, go to HTTP://www.rebtel.com
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