Thursday, November 12, 2015

840,000 Swedes are outside the network – New Technology

       

Internet Foundation (IIS earlier punkt.se) annually make the most thorough investigation of the Swedes and the Internet, and this year’s edition shows that 93 percent of the population has access to Internet at home. One-third have fiber, about as many have ADSL (via the old telecom cables), 16 percent have mobile broadband and a little less receive their connectivity through cable television outlet.

From this it can be concluded that it is far from all that has fast internet, if the mean 100 mb per second the previous government wanted 90 percent of the population and businesses must have by 2020. According to PTS’s Survey of last year, 61 percent of households and companies that had access to that speed.

But the question of the whole of Sweden’s digitized is not just about connection speeds. 650,000 Swedes have no access to the network at all, and, together with the disinterested will be 840,000 citizens over twelve years that are not connected.

– There are 650,000 that are outside the network today, there are more than a completely Gothenburg. Although it is 70 000 fewer than last year, remains a huge challenge. It is probably almost inevitable that there will be a backlash with many unwilling or uninterested, but the question is whether we can offer them, says Emanuel Charles Stone, a journalist and advisor in digitization issues.

There are some points in the survey is particularly interesting, but lacking answers. The proportion reporting they shopped online in the past year decreased by 6 percentage points to 79 percent. Other studies show increases in the krona. And why are aged 16-25 tablets a much lesser extent than other age groups except the + 76-year-olds. Considered a 10 inch display as childish or gubbig?

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