Europe’s highest computer and internet usage takes place in Iceland. According to the World Economic Forum, Iceland has one of the highest rates of social media and internet use in the world. Iceland has some of the newest technology and is a very social country. Digital media and the internet in general is a necessity in Iceland. The Icelandic parliament, in 2010, started a new media enterprise that protects free speech. Their goal was to make Iceland a safe haven for the presses, reporters, journalists and informers.
Since 1989, Iceland has been linked to the internet and it stands as one of the most connected countries in the world. It has a very high percentage of homes with internet access in Europe .The NORDUnet in Denmark first connected Iceland to the internet and a year later a line to NORDUnet in Sweden was made. The link was steadily upgraded.
The Nordic connection was improved in 1997, when ISnet made a straight connection to Teleglobe in Canada. The connection upgraded and improved when the line was relocated to New York in 1999. Broadband connections were operational in 1998 and in 2006 just under 90 percent of Icelandic households had internet access. The amount of households that have high speed internet has increased significantly in recent years. In 2007, Seltjarnes, an Icelandic city, became the first village/community in the world that has every citizen accessing fiber-optic internet service which is a method of transferring information from one place to another by directing rhythms of light through an optical fiber.
The fee of accessing the internet by computers and cellphones is reasonably priced: a basic internet subscription costs approximately $31, and a basic mobile phone connection approximately $5....
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...al media and internet use in the world. It stands above the other countries and dominates in internet freedom. I learned a lot about internet use and social media while researching and doing this report. Iceland is definitely an impressive and social country.
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The internet has a low monthly fee that everyone can afford to access. Sometimes they even have free internet access. It is easy to access. Turn the computer on and click one button and one will connect to the internet. The internet is always available to all, even to those who can't afford to have the computer at home, can't afford to pay the monthly fee, or those people who travel around. They can access the internet through the library, school, or even in coffee shops at various cities. There is a library in every city in the U.S. The technology is becoming more and more developed everyday. People can now own a small computer that is transferable, a laptop. They can carry and use it anytime and anywhere they go. People can talk or communicate to as many people as they want, not like telephone where we can only talk to one or two people at a time. It's just as a retired librarian woman said in John Schwartzs article "The American Dream, and Email for All": "I'm a grandmother; I wish some of my friends were online. It's so much simpler than to communicate in person. You just have to sit down and type something" (241).
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Any form of communication via the internet is cheaper and rather faster than any service from other facilities. The electronic mail (email), for instance, allows any user on the internet to send nearly instantaneous electronic message to anyone else. The “internet phone”, which is slowly but surely replacing the regular phone, enables anyone to make free long distance calls, through the computer. With the appearance of “streaming” technologies, broadcasting companies and radio stations are transmitting regularly over the internet, which makes them accessible anywhere on the globe. The only costs involved in using these internet services, and many others not mentioned, are the costs of the user's computer, the modem , and the telephone lines used to dial in, all of which can be relatively cheap.
World Internet Usage and Population Statistics, March 31 2011, retrieved September 27th 2011 from http://www.internetworldstats.com/stats.htm
This document seeks to outline and investigate the growth of internet penetration in Ireland. The origin of the Internet was the ARPANET, a project funded by the U.S. Department of Defense (DOD) in 1969.Kennedy (2012) states that twenty years ago Barry Flanagan began Ireland On-Line in his house in Galway, beginning the internet as a consumer phenomenon in Ireland. Internet thereby started in 1992 in Ireland that is twenty-three years later from when it started in the U.S. Since then the growth of internet penetration have been rapid.
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