Internet broadband access

The European Commission stated that it wants all Europeans to have access to broadband Internet by 2010. On Thursday, the 18 of September, the Commission familiarized itself with a report on the subject, which says that the use of broadband Internet increased threefold between 2003 and 2007 and covered 36 per cent of households in the EU, but there are very big differences in the access to such Internet among the member states.

According to the report, Bulgaria is in the last place in the EU in terms of broadband access per 100 population. In Bulgaria, this index is 7.6 per cent, whereas in countries such as Denmark it reaches 35.6 per cent.

In another report on issues of electronic government, available to BTA, the section on Bulgaria says that only 2 per cent of the Roma population, 5 per cent of ethnic Turks and 8 per cent of Bulgarian moslems have access to the Internet. The average access to the Internet in the country is 25 per cent, the report says.

Under BTA