More than half of Europeans go to the WAN

Soglacno recent report of the official EU statistical agency Eurostat, more than half of Europeans go to the global network of almost daily.

Approximately 50 % of users each day, the Europeans use the net to find information through search engines, 15% use the Internet to make voice calls, another 13% are active users of file-sharing networks and download music and movies. In the Eurostat said that the survey data were obtained for the first three months of 2007.

The researchers also noted that 54 % of European households have access to the Internet. In the first quarter of 2006 did not exceed 49%.

42% of European users go online with the help of high-speed communication lines (a year ago with the help of these technologies into the network came out only 30 % of Europeans ).

The most advanced in terms of access to the network a European country - the Netherlands, where more than 80 % of households have access to the network, except in the Netherlands is the highest penetration of broadband Internet.

The least development in telecommunications, the country is the EU - Bulgaria, where only 20 % of households have access to the network. Slightly above Greece and Romania, but in Greece and Romania the lowest prevalence of broadband connections, only 7 % and 8 % respectively.

Different national preferences, and the Europeans when the French and the Baltic states use additional network services such as Skype, then the people of Luxembourg mostly prefer to download files from the Internet.

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