Above 50% EU25 households enjoy internet access in Q1 2006
10 Nov '06
3 min read
At the beginning of 2006, the highest proportions of enterprises with internet access were recorded in Finland (99 percent), Denmark and Austria (both 98 percent) and the Netherlands (97 percent).
Only in Latvia (80 percent), Cyprus (86 percent), Lithuania (88 percent) and Poland (89 percent) were fewer than 90 percent of enterprises connected to the internet.
Broadband offers a much faster connection to the internet, and offers the potential of changing the way the internet is used.
The proportion of households with a broadband connection in 2006 was highest in the Netherlands (66 percent), Denmark (63 percent), Finland (53 percent) and Sweden (51 percent), and lowest in Greece (4 percent), Slovakia (11 percent), Cyprus (12 percent) and Ireland (13 percent).
Amongst enterprises the highest levels of broadband connections were recorded in Sweden and Finland (both 89 percent), Spain (87 percent) and France (86 percent), and the lowest in Poland (46 percent), Cyprus (55 percent), Lithuania (57 percent) and Latvia (59 percent).
Nearly three quarters of young people used the internet at least once a week: In the first quarter of 2006, the highest proportions of individuals regularly using the internet were recorded in Sweden (80 percent), Denmark (78 percent), the Netherlands (76 percent) and Finland (71 percent), and the lowest in Greece (23 percent), Cyprus (29 percent), Italy and Portugal (both 31 percent).
At EU25level a higher proportion of men than women used the internet regularly (51 percent of men compared with 43 percent of women), and this was true for all Member States, although in Estonia, Latvia, Lithuania and Finland the gap was only one or two percentage points. In Luxembourg the gap was 21 percentage points (men 76 percent, women 55 percent).
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