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Smartphones have ousted laptops as the most popular devices for mobile internet access in the Netherlands. Many young people, in particular, use smartphones almost daily to go online wherever they...

Nearly 10 million people in the Netherlands regularly shop online. They are buying more and more clothes online, especially women. Most online shoppers buy only new products.

In 2012, one in three over-75s used the internet. More men than women in this age group use the internet. E-mailing and retrieving information are popular, social media are rarely used.

There were 12.4 million internet users in the Netherlands in 2012. This is 96 percent of all 12 to 75 year-olds.

Internet use among the older generation in the Netherlands has increased dramatically in recent years. Older people are catching up on younger generations.

In the spring of 2011, there were over six million mobile Internet users in the age category 12–75 in the Netherlands, exactly half of all 12 to 75-year-olds who indicated they used the Internet in...

Dutch Internet users are spammed more often, but their PCs are less infected by computer viruses than Internet users in other countries of the European Union (EU).

Mobile Internet is increasingly becoming a part of daily life. Over one in three Internet users had access to the web through mobile devices in 2010 versus one in five in 2007.

In the spring of 2010, 12 million people aged 12 to 75 years in the Netherlands said they regularly went online.

More and more Dutch consumers are shopping online. This spring, nearly three-quarters of the 11.8 million internet users in the Netherlands said they had purchased a product online.

The Dutch are using the Internet for an increasing number of activities. Compared with other countries in Europe, there are not many highly skilled Internet users in the Netherlands.

74 percent of Dutch households had a fast internet connection at home in 2007.

Over 80 percent of all households with internet had broadband by June 2006. Four years earlier this was just a quarter.