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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Christmas Presents Getting Smarter – Smartphones Are All The Rage

The penetration of smartphones in Hungary has gained momentum – last year’s sales of 800,000 mobile handsets were exceeded by mobile network operators by October, 2012 and the Christmas shopping spree is likely to boost that figure to a total of over 1,000,000 smartphones by the end of the year. As a result, one in [...]

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TV Eaters – IPTV on the Rise

In Hungary leisure time at home has become synonymous with television viewing in the last 25-30 years. Watching TV is a typically passive activity for which content providers found no antidote for a long time. Attempts to involve the viewers occasionally worked for certain programmes, e.g. through voting by text message. In the last three [...]

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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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The Town of Szentendre is the Most Internet Intensive Community in Hungary

GKIeNET – T-Home – T-Mobile: The Town of Szentendre is the Most Internet Intensive Community in Hungary The latest Report on the Internet Economy, published by GKIeNET, T-Home and T-Mobile in April 2009, reveals that more than half of the population in Hungary can be considered digitally literate. However, the level of internet intensity subsides [...]

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