God sanctify those Europeans : Across the EU , more than 120 million multitude have never been on-line . How do they make do without Facebook and YouTube ?
In Romania , 54 per cent of the population have never used the cyberspace , whether via home access , at an internet cafe or over a smart phone , report Reuters . In Bulgaria , Greece , Cyprus and Portugal , only half of homes have an internet connexion . Across the entire EU , 24 per cent of 16 - 74 year olds across 27 area — a universe of 500 million people — have never get to the net .
That is a pretty bleak berth in connectivity damage .
It ’s not all bad news , though . In the Netherlands — Europe ’s most machine-accessible nation — 94 per cent of citizenry have Internet accession , and Luxembourg , Sweden and Denmark all have access rates of 90 per cent or above .
Because of the poor admittance to the internet in some copuntries , online retail has been slow to take off too . In Romania and Bulgaria , for instance , just 13 per centime of people have buy items over the cyberspace . Compare that to 80 per centime in the UK , which has Europe ’s most advanced on-line thriftiness , and things look sad for those in Eastern Europe .
While the figures make for a sound headline , what ’s really worrying here is the disparity . By and heavy , its the pathetic commonwealth in the EU that come bottom in terminal figure of connectivity — and there does n’t seem to be much sign of the gulf narrowing . [ Reuters ; prototype : eric.beasley ]
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