Almost all Romanian users – 96% – use the email, 87% use social networks, 95% read news online, while 92% are searching for product information.
Over half of Romanian internet users (56%) have a Facebook account, above the European average, 78% use instant messaging while 44% resort to video calls (Skype).
An important share of Romanian users resort to internet for music (79%), video streaming (65%), games (62%), TV streaming (49%), movie downloads (45%), game download (31%), book download (31%), video streaming (pay per view) – 10%.
Around 62% of the users are looking for jobs online, 50% resort to internet banking, while 29% are shopping online. Around 18% of Romanians pay taxes online, while 16% get medical results online.
For internet access, 70% of the users use a desktop, 60% – a notebook computer, 32% – a smartphone, 14% – a PC tablet, 12% -the TV and 9% – the mobile phone.
Over half of the Romanians (59%) say that the internet is indispensable for their families.
Romania has one of the highest internet speeds, but ranks among the last EU states as regards broadband penetration rate.
At the end of 2013, Romania had 3.8 million broadband connections, up 8% per annum, from over 300,000 connections back in 2005. According to estimations, in 2018, Romania will have 4.5 million broadband connections.
On the other hand, broadband penetration rate among individual consumers was at 56% in 2013, below the European average of 76%, thus Romania ranks 26th of the 28th EU states, followed by Greece and Bulgaria.