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Telecom .IT: In Romania, the broadband mobile connections were standing in mid-2015 at 12.7 million persons
The number of internet users has more than tripled in a decade, from one billion in 2005 to an estimated 3.2 billion at the end of 2015, according to data released by the World Bank in its Digital Dividends World Development 2016 report presented on Tuesday in a specialty conference in Bucharest, co-hosted by the National School of Political and Administrative Studies.
Notwithstanding, the internet access gap is still one of the current problems worldwide, since statistics show that almost 60pct of the world population is offline and cannot participate actively in the digital economy.
In addition, some six billion persons have no access to a high-speed Internet connection; approximately four billion people have no access to any Internet connection; and about two billion do not have a mobile phone.
In the European Union, three times as many citizens use online services in the richest countries than in the poorest of online services users is triple in developed countries.
The most recent data released by the Romania's National Authority for Administration and Regulation in Communications (ANCOM) show that in Romania the broadband mobile connections were standing in mid-2015 at 12.7 million persons, up by 22pct against the same period of 2014, while in the mobile telephony 22.7 million users were active, by 1.8pct more than in S1 2014.
As for the Internet traffic through mobile connections, the Romanian users have generated in the first half 2015 some 38,400 TB, up by 87pct against the same period of 2014.
At the same time, as regards the broadband fixed connections, the ANCOM data show that at mid-2015 4.1 million Romanians were accessing the Internet by using this kind of connection, and the total traffic amounted to 2.2 million TB. Of the total 4.1 million connections, 48pct were allowing at least 100 Mbps, 14pct at least 30 Mbps and smaller than 100 Mbps, 23pct at least 10 Mbps and smaller than 30 Mbps, 14pct at least 2 Mbps, yet below 10 Mbps, and the rest of 1pct were below 2 Mbps.