Half of Hungarian adults use the internet at least once a month, a survey prepared by the GfK group in seventeen Central and Eastern European countries in May shows.
The number of internet users in Hungary grew by 11 percentage points in the past year. At present 48 percent of households are connected to the World Wide Web, GfK said in a summary sent to MTI on Friday.
There has been a rapid growth in the use of mobile technologies since the beginning of this year and cable internet is increasingly popular as against ADSL. Linked services involving combinations of landline telephone, mobile, television and internet are also increasingly popular.
The GfK survey prepared by interviewing 1,000 people in each of the 17 countries of the region shows that Estonia is the most advanced country when it comes to internet use, with 70 percent of the population using the internet regularly. It is followed by Slovenia with 68 percent and the other two Baltic states plus Austria with 55-60 percent. In Ukraine, only one-fifth of the population use the internet regularly.