According to data from comScore, the number of users that use their cell phone to access news sites on a daily basis has more than doubled over the past year. In 2008, 10.8 million users accessed news sites via their phones and in 2009, that number has more than doubled to 22.4 million.

To put it all in context, the total number of mobile users that have accessed the news via their phone was a total of 63.2 million. The number of total mobile phone users is about 263 million. This means about a quarter of all cell phone users access the news with their cell phones and about 8.5% access it daily.

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