Greek men aged 16-24, with higher-level education and living in large cities, are the most dynamic users of the Internet in the country, a report by the Observatory of Information Society revealed on Thursday. The survey, as ANA reports, also showed that fixed-telephony has consolidated at around 85%, while mobile-telephony showed signs of saturation with 95% of Greeks, aged 16-74, owning a mobile telephone. The Internet is steadily gaining access in Greek households, having covered around 50% of the Greek population already.
A 46% of Greek households said they had an Internet connection, while 41% said they had a broadband connection. In 2010, one in two Greeks said they used a computer, while 44% said they had used the Internet and 25% said they had used 3G services through mobile telephony networks.
The number of Greeks using the Internet was up 7.9% in 2010, compared with 2009 and 24% higher compared with 2008, although the distance from European average rates remained steady at 20-25 percentage points. The survey also noted a significant increase in the use of social media (YouTube, Facebook, Twitter, Hi5, MySpace, etc).
The percentage of Greeks using social media was 36% in the fourth quarter of 2010, sharply up from 14% in the first quarter of 2009 and only 2% in the first quarter of 2008.
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