Spain 'behind EU average' for internet use and broadband access, except in the health service
Thursday, May 29, 2014 @ 3:25 PM
SPAIN is well below the European average for internet use and broadband expansion, according to a recent report.
The European Commission says an average of 76 per cent of homes across the 28 member States are on ADSL, compared to 69 per cent in Spain - which has in fact gone up from 67 per cent last year.
High-speed connections are also more rare to see in Spain than elsewhere in the EU - only 15 per cent of households have internet running at 30 megabits per second or more, coompared to 21 per cent across the EU-28.
But ultra-high speed connections of more than 100Mbps only make up five per cent of all broadband networks in the EU, compared to a higher six per cent in Spain.
Availability makes some of the difference, as is seen with comparative figures for 4G mobiles - only 47 per cent of Spain is able to use these, next to 59 per cent of the rest of the European Union.
This said, broadband mobile use is greater in Spain - 73 per cent of phone customers have it - than in the EU, where an average of 62 per cent are connected.
Two-thirds of residents in Spain say they go online at least once a week, compared to 72 per cent in the rest of the EU, and only 54 per cent use the internet daily, next to 62 per cent elsewhere on the continent.
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