In France, internet now penetrates over 50% of all households
May 2, 2008
One in two French households are now online, says new media study on the internet in France.
52% of France now uses the Internet, the first time that level has been reached in France, according to a new survey by Mediametrie, a media ratings company in France. The study reports that 13.5 million French households have Internet access, a 15% jump in French internet penetration in just one year. Almost all of the households in France that have internet (93%) surf the web with high-speed Internet services like ASDL cable rather than the antiquated dial-up. The number of French Internet users overall (quantified as people over 16 in France who have gone online in the last month, either at home or elsewhere) was over 61%.
France still lags behind most of Europe in Internet use, however. Spain, the UK and Germany had slightly more users, with Italy being the only European country with fewer Internet users than France. But with over half of France now connected and growing fast, and wifi popping up everyplace in Paris and across France from cafes to public parks, it will soon be hard to find anywhere offline in France.
The most popular sites in France for web surfers? Google, Yahoo, Orange (the French mobile phone and media company) and the French Yellow Pages.
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