Cell phone use in the Dominican Republic saw a 33.4% increase last year. According to the data of INDOTEL, the number of fixed, residential telephones fell 0.1% as cell phones in use leapt to 2,120,426 units last year, most of which were digital. Cell phones are also supplanting the use of pagers. Over the past four years, pager use has fallen by 20%. Internet use has enjoyed a continual growth, with 96,391 connections to the net, up 26.9% over 2002. In 1999 there were only 31,376 connections to the World Wide Web. Several subscribers said that the high cost of traditional phones had moved them into the digital cell-phone world.