EUOBSERVER / BRUSSELS - Brits are the most active users of the internet among European nations, the UK's communication regulator, Ofcom, revealed in a report, depicting the country's population as keen participants of social networks such as Facebook and huge fans of online video games. There is nearly one broadband connection for every four people across the G7 most industrialised nations plus Poland, Spain, the Netherlands, Sweden and Ireland, according to the International Communications Market report, published on Wednesday (19 November). Brits are heavy users of online video games and social networking services such as Facebook In the European Union, the UK, France and Germany, the Netherlands, Sweden and Ireland saw the highest average growth in connections between 2004 and 2007, at five percent per year. Across all the countries surveyed, more women than men were using the internet. The research found that US consumers spend most time online (15 hours per week) while Brits lead the European league with almost 14 hours. Spaniards on the other hand spend the least time on the internet: 7.5 hours per week.
EUOBSERVER / BRUSSELS - Brits are the most active users of the internet among European nations, the UK's communication regulator, Ofcom, revealed in a report, depicting the country's population as keen participants of social networks such as Facebook and huge fans of online video games.
There is nearly one broadband connection for every four people across the G7 most industrialised nations plus Poland, Spain, the Netherlands, Sweden and Ireland, according to the International Communications Market report, published on Wednesday (19 November).
Brits are heavy users of online video games and social networking services such as Facebook
In the European Union, the UK, France and Germany, the Netherlands, Sweden and Ireland saw the highest average growth in connections between 2004 and 2007, at five percent per year.
Across all the countries surveyed, more women than men were using the internet.
The research found that US consumers spend most time online (15 hours per week) while Brits lead the European league with almost 14 hours. Spaniards on the other hand spend the least time on the internet: 7.5 hours per week.
EU privacy laws, which still are exponentially more restrictive than those of market outliers US, AU express a profound distrust among continental and UK ISP-subscribers of unregulated communications data collection by third parties. Change in Global TLD structural distribution (actual physical secured server locations) do not mitigate that attitude, especially given convergence in deteriorating policies.
If by "internet friendly" the reporter actually means volume of EMAIL, the reporter's inference would be correct. ITC technology is a phone sporting "party line," or broadcast capacity, and therefore ->zero value add to "fax" transmital capability. People with phone and marginal economic gut understand: I'll not pay a premium for one more minute of digital mark-up --unless of course the content is qualified "premium".
And, geezus, I'm carrying a cell phone that connects me to who I know and can touch at any time! Diversity is the key to economic and political evolution.
Is your point that the Internet, or Internet mediated communications, provide no value beyond that provided by a conference phone and a fax machine?
And what exactly does your point about EU privacy restrictions have to do with the notion of "internet-friendliness," a state that is admittedly hard to define?
