eurostat figures 2006

bealtine

Recent eurostat figures show that 50% of all households in Ireland have access to the internet. However only 13% have broadband connections.

Only Greece, Slovakia and Cyprus (the usual suspects) are worse off than us.

The picture for enterprises is slightly better but only slightly.

Some quotes:
"At the beginning of 2006, the highest proportions of enterprises with internet access were recorded in Finland
(99%), Denmark and Austria (both 98%) and the Netherlands (97%)."

"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%),
Denmark (63%), Finland (53%) and Sweden (51%), and lowest in Greece (4%), Slovakia (11%), Cyprus (12%)
and Ireland (13%)."



http://epp.eurostat.ec.europa.eu/portal/page?_pageid=1090,30070682,1090_33076576&_dad=portal&_schema=PORTAL

1huge1

Ok I know were bad but what is the deal with Greece their terrible like and getting no better, is it down to lifestyle over there or what??

watty

They all outside enjoying real life, eating olives and roasting Lamb.

You haven't watched Zorba the Greek or My Big Fat Greek Wedding?

Seriously though, I don't know what the story is with Greece. But as far as I know they don't claim to have 80% BB coverage at home the way is claimed here.

Blaster99

If I recall, Greece has a poorly regulated market with a monopolising incumbent.

watty

Perhaps this would stimulate the Obvious Lack Of Demand here
http://www.reghardware.co.uk/2006/11/13/redten_free_pc_package/

probe

What really shows up Ireland on this document is Iceland, the neighbouring island to the north - a small country that is free of the schakles of the incompetent, bureaucratic EU.

72% of households have broadband (IRL=13%)
95% of enterprises have broadband (IRL=61%)

.probe

PS: Congratulations on finding this. The EU morons don't apparently want you (or anyone else) to find stuff on their websites - hence they titled the document 4-10112006-en-ap and hid it in a most illogical place http://epp.eurostat.ec.europa.eu/pls/portal/docs/PAGE/PGP_PRD_CAT_PREREL/PGE_CAT_PREREL_YEAR_2006/

If they really wanted it to be read it might be filed under a simple URL logical http://eurostat.eu/broadband/ (or better still if they kept all broadband content at http://broadband.eu) with an appropriate filename for the document itself (eg internet_usage_2006.11.10)

watty

If we wern't in the EU we would probabily be way below Greece.