Internet facts in Greece

As a new blog and writing from Athens, Greece I would like first to share some facts about the Internet in Greece.

- there are approximately 5 million internet users in Greece.

- 1,75 million Greeks have high speed internet connection. This is 15.6 percent of the population.

- Greece ranks 23rd out of 30 OECD countries, on penetration, speed and cost of broadband internet access according to a   recently published survey by the Berkman Center for Internet and Society at Harvad University.

- 1,3 million are the number of website domains registered in Greece.

- 217.210 are the blogs in Greek registered with blogspot, wordpress, pathfinder, other.gr and livejournal.

- 2,5 million Greeks have purchased something online during the last year.

- 125 Euros is the average amount spent by Greeks in each purchase online.

- The most popular sites according to Alexa.com are: Google, Facebook, YouTube, Blogger, Yahoo, windows live, Wikipedia, Troktiko (news Blog) and In.gr

These are the facts and as you can see there is still much catching up to do. This, also opens the door to new opportunities that other mature and saturated markets do not offer.

Actually the are new entrepreneurs and many interesting new projects in Greece, we can speak about them in a new post.

Source of the information: Athens Plus
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