Many Europeans using access Internet daily

A recent report has revealed that a huge number of consumers across Europe use their Internet on a daily basis, with younger consumers in particular getting online each and every day.

Over recent years, with the widespread take up of broadband services, people across the UK and Europe have started to go online more and more, using the Internet for all sorts of purposes. Going online has become even more popular with the launch of sites such as social networking sites, which many use to keep in touch with family and friends and to update themselves on what it going on in the lives of loved ones and people that they may not have seen for a long time.

Recently released figures have now shown just how many people are not getting online on a daily basis across Europe, with many consumers using the Internet each and every day for one thing or another. The figures showed that fifty percent of consumers aged between twenty five years old and sixty four years were using the Internet every day across Europe. In the sixteen to twenty four year age bracket around three quarters of consumers were found to be getting online each day.

However, whilst the number of people across Europe as a whole who go online each day is high, the breakdown shows that the numbers based on each country vary, often based on broadband penetration in each of these countries. For example, whereas seventy seven percent of consumers in the Netherlands have broadband access only thirty three percent of those in Greece have access, which affects the number of people using the Internet each day in these countries. In the UK sixty three percent of consumers have broadband access.

Source – Pocket-Lint