Austria has fallen back in terms of home-based internet access reports Futurezone – although Austrian-based businesses still have access levels to match the top countries in the world. European statistics published on Thursday shows that Austria ranks only 10th in Europe for private internet access whereas business access ranks within the top 5.
This however doesn’t mean – that the percentage of access has actually gone down – wonderful things statistics. Private access has increased from 43 to 48% (54% for men) between 2004 and 2005 – according to the report with broadband increasing from 15 to 23 in the same period. It’s just that Austria has increased a little more slowly relative to other countries.
Eurostat – which published the offending figures – says that 4 out of 10 Austrians have never used the internet. Shocking…
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Is it really that shocking or is it just a glitch, an anomaly? Do you think the demographics have anything to do with this trend? For instance is there a large elderly population in Austria? Not the sort of questions to keep you up at night I suppose but statistics will do that to you.