Some 55.8% of Romanian households own a PC (69.8% of households in urban areas and 37.5% of households in rural areas).
According to the statistics institute, there are no significant differences between regions and the share of households that own a PC varies between 50% and 60%. Bucharest-Ilfov is an exception and the share exceeds 74%. The lowest shares were registered in southern areas (49.6%), northeastern Romania (50.3%) and central Romania (51.3%).
Some 60.3% of the people polled, aged 16 to 74, said they use a computer.
About 86.9% of youths aged 16 to 24 and 78.9% of people aged 25 to 34 said they use a computer. On the other hand, the share falls in the case of people aged 45 to 54 (54%) and 65 to 74% (only 16.8%).
Regarding access to the Internet, the highest shares are in Bucharest-Ilfov (72.5% of households), western and northwestern regions (58.3% and 56.9%, respectively), southeastern regions (51.2%) and central Romania (49.5%). The lowest shares are in northeastern regions (45.7% of households) and southern regions (47.2%).
Most Internet users have fixed broadband internet connection (95.3% of households). On the other hand, only 11.6% of households use mobile broadband services and 7.4% use narrowband services.
Cable Internet services are used by 83.7% of households, and DSL services by 15.7%.