Internet use

46% of Maltese households use the internet, by MaltaMedia News:

Nearly all Maltese households at 98 % have television with 69 % saying that they have cable television and some 26 % having an analogue service. A National Statistics Office (NSO) report based on 2005, revealed that 80 % of Maltese households had at least one mobile phone while the proportion of household with internet access stood at 46 %.

With regards to internet, 49% of households stated that they did not have a connection because they felt no need for it. A sizable proportion of respondent households at 23 % gave a lack of related skills as their reason for not installing internet.

The vast majority of households with home internet use a desktop computer to access the internet while 15 % use a portable computer. The survey data indicate that the use of ultra-new internet searching devices such as games consoles and TV sets that include an internet facility is still minimal. On the other hand, 61 % of households responded that they have a broadband connection against 39 % with a narrowband connection at the time of interviewing.

While computer use seems to be more or less evenly distributed between the sexes the proportion of men who had recently accessed the internet at the time of the survey surpassed that of women by some 9 % at 42 % against 33 %. This difference is corroborated by the proportion of female respondents who said that they had never made use of the medium, a figure which is eight percentage points higher than its main counterpart...

Read NSO report here