Mass market adoption of the mobile internet may be further away than predicted.

According to the 2007 Mobile Phone Report by Continental Research, the percentage of those using features, such as accessing the internet and downloading video, decreased in eight out of 11 activities tracked.

But research by T-Mobile paints a brighter picture for recruiters who have already made services available to the market. The mobile provider says it has 500,000 active users on its web' n'walk internet service.

www.continentalresearch. com; www.t-mobile.co.uk