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Tue 04 Apr 2001Access to Internet up by 400% since 1998
Irish households with web access increased by over 400 per cent between 1998 and 2000, according to the latest survey on Internet and computer penetration in Ireland carried out by the Central Statistics Office. While this is still relatively low compared to some of our European neighbours, the surge from 61,100 homes having a computer connected to the Internet in 1998 to 262,700 by the end of 2000 is still substantial.
Just over one-in-five Irish households has an Internet connection. In addition to those that access the web through home computers, around 16,000 people access it through television, 26,300 use mobile phone WAP services and about 5,000 go online through a games console.
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