TAIPEI: More than 6.7 million Taiwanese - roughly a third of the
island's population - now use the internet weekly, according to a new
report by digital magazine, Business Next.
Highlights of the company's third annual "How digital RU?" survey found
that Taiwan's pool of netizens had grown to 36 per cent of the country's
population, up from 26 per cent in 1999.
The ration of male to female users has closed to 51 versus 49 per cent
this year.
Fifty-one per cent of users surf the net one to three hours per day and
send or receive an average of eight emails daily.
Twenty-one per cent invest in stocks online.
The penetration of digital appliances in the market is 57 per cent for
desktops computers, 18 per cent for laptops, 81 per cent mobile phones,
17 per cent for digital cameras, 10 per cent for pagers, seven per cent
for PDAs and six per cent for wireless stock readers.
