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Europe Daily Bulletin No. 7984

15 June 2001
Contents Publication in full By article 34 / 45
GENERAL NEWS / (eu) eu/information society
EU has one PC for every four inhabitants

Brussels, 14/06/2001 (Agence Europe) - An investigation by Eurostat published on Monday outlines the rapid growth in Internet usage and mobile telephones in the European Union. The number of personal computers (PC) in used, increasing 10% per year in the EU, has reached 100 million units in 2000, which means that 25% of the European population is equipped with a PC, against 6% of the world population. Out of the 400 million Internet users counted in the world in January 2001, more than 130...

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