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Telecom.IT: Romania, in the top five of EU for high-speed internet connections
Only 2% of the EU households have a subscription to the broadband of high speed ( over 100 Mbps), far away from the EU objective for 2020 of 50% but at present Romania is in Top 5, together with the countries in the Northern Europe, shows the newest report of the European Commission connected to the internet and the information society, which the situation in the EU when it comes to the penetration rate for the internet, mobile technology, LTE, e-governing and the informatics competences you can find from the article.
The broadband is accessible at present in almost all countries of Europe - the performance of the satellite improved, contributing to the covering of 4.5% of the population which does not benefit from land network of broadband.
The high –speed broadband reaches now half of the population – 54% of the EU citizens have broadband at their disposal at a speed of over 30 Mbps. At this chapter Romania is over the EU average, Belgium and the Netherlands are the best, Italy and Greece the worst.
Access to the internet becomes more and more mobile – 36% of the EU citizens have access to the internet through a portable computer or other mobile devices ( access through the mobile phone increased from 7% in 2008 to 27% in 2012).
Mobile technology of 4th generation (LTE) tripled, reaching 26% in one year. Romania being the closest to the European average. LTE is best in Sweden and Portugal, in eight countries the services were not in function at the end of 2012 when the report was made.
Only 26% of the households have subscriptions to broadband networks ( over 100 Mbps) far away from the EU objective for 2020 of 50%. Romania is three times over the EU average, being surpassed by Sweden, Latvia and Belgium. The EC says that Romania is a surprising presence, as it has the smallest penetration in the EU at land broadband lines.
50% of the EU citizens have reduced or non/existing informatics competences – the competences of the IT users have not improved in the last year either as quantity or as quality. In Romania over 70% of the citizens have reduced or non/existing competences, at the other pole being Germany and the Netherlands.
40% of the enterprises which recruit or tried to recruit IT specialists have difficulties, estimating that the real number of vacancies will increase to 900,000 by 2015.
At present 70% of the EU citizens use the internet regularly, at least once a week, more than 67% last year, 54% of the defavoured people use the internet regularly, up from 51% last year. In Romania, over 40% of the citizens use the internet regularly.
Electronic commerce is constantly growing, but not at transborderly level – 45% of the natural persons use the internet to acquire goods and services, a moderate growth from 43% last year, very few people buy outside the borders. In Romania, the percentage is under 10%, in Scandinavia, over seven times higher.
Electronic governing is used at present by the majority of enterprises and citizens – 87% of the enterprises use electronic governing and the proportion of citizens who use e-governing increased, during the last year – 44% ( both increased with 3 percentage points). In Romania almost 30% of the citizens use e-governing services, while in Iceland and Denmark we speak about over 80%.