Christmas Shopping Fever on the Internet

While retail sales in Hungary are still struggling, online retailers cannot complain. In the past year 1,6 million people purchased a product online at least once, with sales approaching HUF 177 billion, a nearly 14 % rise compared to last year’s HUF 155 billion. This was greatly facilitated by the emergence of online shopping malls [...]

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Young People in the Lead – Consumption of Information Radically Changing

Internet users have split into the two groups: those under 30 and older generations. The two groups use the Internet for different purposes via different devices in a different way. For young people, the Internet is the primary source of information where they search for movies, videos and images rather than written texts. Social media [...]

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Mobile Internet Has Been a Success in the Competition among Internet Access Technologies

The number of internet subscriptions in Hungary exceeded 2.4 million at the end of the first half of 2004, propelled largely by the growth in mobile internet services over the past year. At year-end 2008 a higher percentage of the population used mobile internet services in Hungary than in Norway or China, the September 2009 Report on the Internet Economy by GKIeNET – T-Home – T-Mobile reveals.

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Internet Subscriptions in Hungary Reached 2.2 Million in 2008

GKIeNET – T-Home – T-Mobile: Internet Subscriptions in Hungary Reached 2.2 Million in 2008 In 2008 the number of landline internet subscriptions in Hungary increased by more than 200 thousand over a one-year period, fueled by the growing internet demand of households. Beginning in mid-2008, however, the expansion of mobile internet service became the driving [...]

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High Inflation Unfavorably Impacts Telecom Spending

GKIeNET – T-Home – T-Mobile: High Inflation Unfavorably Impacts Telecom Spending The 8% inflation in 2007 has also reduced the real value of household incomes. GKIeNet, in an analysis of CSO’s latest household statistics, points out that households spent less on telecommunication devices and underlying services in 2007 than they had in 2006, owing to [...]

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