Spain top in EU for mobile phone internet access
Friday, December 23, 2016 @ 9:55 AM
SPAIN has finally shed its stereotype of being among Europe's least technologically-savvy countries – in the past year, it has topped the list for the highest number of people who use their mobile phones to access the internet.
According to Eurostat, which gathers and publishes statistics for European Union countries, a whopping 93% of internet surfers used their phones to do so rather than a computer – way ahead of the UK at 86%, and even beating Denmark's 85%.
Cyprus and The Netherlands, jointly, came in second at 88%, followed by Croatia at 87%, and the UK was fourth.
The EU web surfers who least used their mobiles for internet access were the Czechs – only 55% did so – followed by the Polish, at 60%.
Latvia (62%), Lithuania (63%) and Greece (66%) were also near the bottom of the list.
Also above the EU average were - after Denmark and in descending order – Sweden, Ireland, Malta, Luxembourg, Germany, Austria, Finland and Italy.
The EU average of net users who accesss the web on their phones is eight in 10, or 80%, the most popular tool for getting online.
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