{"id":240,"date":"2008-04-24T17:50:51","date_gmt":"2008-04-24T16:50:51","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.combell.com\/?p=240"},"modified":"2015-06-03T16:56:49","modified_gmt":"2015-06-03T14:56:49","slug":"the-european-commissions-i2010-report-on-ict-in-europe","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.combell.com\/en\/blog\/the-european-commissions-i2010-report-on-ict-in-europe\/","title":{"rendered":"The European Commission\u2019s i2010 report on ICT in Europe"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The European Commission published a few interesting numbers in its new progress report \u201ci2010\u201d. The average broadband penetration in Europe totals 20 % (25.6 % in Belgium and 34.2 % in the Netherlands). No less than 40 % of all Europeans have never used the Internet. People who did access the Internet mostly used it for e-mails, e-banking and e-commerce and for researching product information. Benelux countries score far above European averages. Countries with a lot on their plate are Bulgaria, Cyprus, Greece, Poland and Romania. They indeed score below European average for over 75 % of the criteria. In some countries, 100 % of administrative formalities between the authorities and companies are conducted via Internet \u2013 a practice that the European Commission would like to recommend to all countries.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The European Commission published a few interesting numbers in its new progress report \u201ci2010\u201d. The average broadband penetration in Europe totals 20 % (25.6 % in Belgium and 34.2 %...<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_uag_custom_page_level_css":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[66,71],"tags":[],"acf":[],"uagb_featured_image_src":{"full":false,"thumbnail":false,"medium":false,"medium_large":false,"large":false,"1536x1536":false,"2048x2048":false,"post-featured":false,"post-featured-opt":false,"post-featured-opt-md":false,"post-featured-opt-sm":false,"post-featured-opt-xs":false,"post-most-popular":false,"post-author":false},"uagb_author_info":{"display_name":"Tom","author_link":"https:\/\/www.combell.com\/en\/blog\/author\/tom\/"},"uagb_comment_info":0,"uagb_excerpt":"The European Commission published a few interesting numbers in its new progress report \u201ci2010\u201d. The average broadband penetration in Europe totals 20 % (25.6 % in Belgium and 34.2 %...","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.combell.com\/en\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/240"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.combell.com\/en\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.combell.com\/en\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.combell.com\/en\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.combell.com\/en\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=240"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/www.combell.com\/en\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/240\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":5366,"href":"https:\/\/www.combell.com\/en\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/240\/revisions\/5366"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.combell.com\/en\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=240"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.combell.com\/en\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=240"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.combell.com\/en\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=240"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}