According to its eighth annual Consumer Payments Survey, Framingham-based research firm IDC Financial Insights found that more than 33 percent of U.S. residents use mobile payments.
That amount is double last year’s. Of those that had made a mobile payment, more than half used PayPal Mobile (56 percent), with Amazon Payments and Apple’s iTunes service tied around 40 percent.
The 2012 Consumer Payments Survey also found that online bill payment is the most popular method in the U.S. For the second year in a row, both biller and bank-operated online bill pay sites were used by more than 50 percent of the respondents. Overall, 73.5 percent of U.S. consumers now use online bill payment, the survey said.
Despite the popularity of digital downloads, such as apps and music, more respondents reported buying physical goods with their phones than online services, digital goods or virtual currency.
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