-Caveat Lector- <A HREF="http://www.ctrl.org/"> </A> -Cui Bono?- This message X-posted from Johnson's Russia List, #4159, 10 March 2000 <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> ''''''''''''''''''''''''''''''''''''''''''''''''''''''''''''''''' By Year End, 45% of All Russian PC Users Will Be on the Internet Connectivity Highest in Siberia ''''''''''''''''''''''''''''''''''''''''''''''''''''''''''''''''' MOSCOW, March 10 (Reuters)--Siberians and young men and women are Russia's top Internet users, a market research firm said on Friday. About a third of Russia's nearly seven million computers are hooked up to the Internet, and that percentage should rise sharply this year, ExactDATA research told an Internet conference, based on surveys of households and companies. Professor Yuri Polyak said he expected about two million Russian Internet users by the middle of this year, though computer use figures are hotly debated, especially recently as investors have showed interest in Russia's Internet. Polyak said surveys showed young women were about 38 percent of occasional users but only 20 percent of those who spent hours on the Internet. Among regular users, 70 percent were younger than 34 years, a quarter were in St. Petersburg or Moscow, and one quarter was in Siberia and the Far East, vast empty lands which hold only 2.6 percent of Russia's 150 million population. Cities of less than 1 million had 55 percent of Internet users, Polyak said. ExactDATA predicted the percent of computers with Internet access would jump to 45 percent at the end of this year from 35 percent at the end of 1999. Personal computer sales would rise to 1.4 million by the end of this year from 1.2 million last year and one million in 1998. Sales hit a 1997 high of1.8 million computers, before Russia's financial crisis. The number of computers in Russia was 6.9 million at the end of 1999, up from 6.4 million last year, and seen growing to 7.5 million this year. About two million of the computers were at home last year. Internet usage was highest in major cities, topped by Novosibirsk, isolated from European Russia but known for its scientists, where 34.1 percent of home computers were connected. Moscow had 33.2 percent of home computers connected and St. Petersburg had 32.8 percent, after which connections tapered off sharply among the 10 cities studied, to 22.2 percent in Yekaterinburg. On-line Russian shopping was dominated by computer stores, 19 percent of the stores advertising on the Russian Internet, followed by services, at 18.7 percent, and home electronics and appliances dealers with 15.7 percent. *-------------------------------------------------------------------* CivilSoc is an electronic information service provided free of charge to 1,600 subscribers worldwide by CCSI--Center for Civil Society International--in association with Friends & Partners. To submit items for posting to CivilSoc, send them to <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To unsubscribe from CivilSoc: 1. Address an e-mail to: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> 2. Leave Subject line blank. In the Message area, type: unsub civilsoc 3. Send message. For more information about civic initiatives in Eurasia, visit our Web site: http://www.friends-partners.org/ccsi/ Past CivilSoc postings can be found at: http://www.friends-partners.org/ccsi/info/civilsoc.htm *--------------------------------------------------------------------* -- ------------- * ENWL (English) * -------- Ecological North West Line * St.Petersburg, Russia E-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] ----------------------------------------------- <A HREF="http://www.ctrl.org/">www.ctrl.org</A> DECLARATION & DISCLAIMER ========== CTRL is a discussion & informational exchange list. Proselytizing propagandic screeds are not allowed. Substance�not soap-boxing! These are sordid matters and 'conspiracy theory'�with its many half-truths, misdirections and outright frauds�is used politically by different groups with major and minor effects spread throughout the spectrum of time and thought. That being said, CTRL gives no endorsement to the validity of posts, and always suggests to readers; be wary of what you read. CTRL gives no credence to Holocaust denial and nazi's need not apply. Let us please be civil and as always, Caveat Lector. ======================================================================== Archives Available at: http://home.ease.lsoft.com/archives/CTRL.html http:[EMAIL PROTECTED]/ ======================================================================== To subscribe to Conspiracy Theory Research List[CTRL] send email: SUBSCRIBE CTRL [to:] [EMAIL PROTECTED] To UNsubscribe to Conspiracy Theory Research List[CTRL] send email: SIGNOFF CTRL [to:] [EMAIL PROTECTED] Om
