However, there are also several significant differences between the media device ownership of Spanish students and
the surveyed students of other countries. UB students for example seem to have a higher possession rate of internet
connections at home (94.6 vs. 85 - 90 per cent in other countries), a higher rate of desktop computer ownership (64.4
vs. 40 - 50 per cent in the surveyed other countries) and a lower rate of notebook ownership (78.9 vs. 80 - 90 per
cent in other countries). This leads to the overall impression, that Spanish students still rely more on stationary
computing than students of other countries that were part of the research project. In Germany, Thailand and the
Philippines, stationary desktop computers and internet connections are already stronger replaced by mobile devices.
However, this trend only seems to occur among bigger computer devices (notebook or bigger) and not among
smaller mobile devices such as smartphones and tablet computers.