CSO 2006 Information Society Stats

damien

http://www.cso.ie/releasespublications/documents/industry/current/iss.pdf

In the first quarter this year, just over 13% of households (or one in every eight) had a broadband connection, compared with 7% in the third quarter 2005. Almost 61% of businesses with 10 or more employees used broadband, up from 48% in the previous year. See above and Tables 1 and 2.

In 2006, an estimated 59% of all households had a home computer, compared to 46% in 2004. The number of households who access the internet on home computers continues to rise, with 49% of all households now connecting to the internet. Just over 83% of households with a computer use it to connect to the internet. See Table 1.

Almost all businesses now connect to the internet. The use of broadband by
enterprises has doubled from 31% in 2004 to 61% in 2006. As a consequence
there has been a sharp decline in the use of modems and ISDN over the same
period. See Table 2.

These results are based on surveys of ICT and e-commerce usage by households and enterprises, conducted in the first quarter of 2006. A more detailed thematic report on ICT and Telecommunications will be issued in December 2006.

bealtine

Households:

According to that survey there are still 523.700 modems in use.
There are 193.500 broadband connections.

I wonder why those people who still use modems are not on broadband?

Enterprise:

56% still use modems to connect.


I suppose it's because there is no demand for that internet thingy.

1huge1

yoheres what i put it down to
there not on broadband because

1.Not availble in their area (same situation im in so sick of isdn)
2.Think they don't use it enough for broadband fair enough
3.Cost they can be rather pricy especially compared to other countries
4.Knowledge lack of i.e they dont know basically what broadband is and dont know how it could help them

but if they could get the availblity sorted out the others would follow suit

watty

5) Available in theory in their area but dsl line fails test or Wireless fails LOS/signal levels.

thebman

Well we are on satellite broadband and waiting for minimum contract length to be up before we switch to wireless broadband which has become available so thats an issue for at least 1 household aswell.

1huge1 made some good points too. We tried to do a group broadband scheme here and not enough people were interested. People in rural Ireland don't realise the benefit of broadband to them considering they live in a rural area.

The ads on broadband were useless for this because they didn't explain the advantages to rural users for shopping at Tesco online and getting delivery etc... that can all be done online now.

However as more people sign up they'll tell people about their experiences so overall as long as the service is good it should spread through word of mouth alone.
^ Spot the error in the last sentence. The service of overpriced and not good enough in Ireland. There are a lot of users with negative experiences so people don't see the point of switching.