Increasing Internet Use by the Elderly in Hungary

Half of Internet users no longer primarily receive information traditional media, but only from the World Wide Web, according to a recent survey by the National Media and Infocommunications Authority (NMHH).

According to the results just published, almost 70% of seniors use the Internet as much as they watch TV, a market research analyst at the authority’s Market Information Department, Eszter Bakonyi told InfoRadio.

According to the NMHH announcement, traditional media and telecommunications (television, radio, print media and telephony) have been in a more difficult situation since Internet use has become more widespread in Hungary.

According to Eszter Bakonyi, the coronavirus epidemic just strengthened this process as many people worked and studied digitally.
According to the survey, at the end of 2019, there were already more than 6 and a half million Internet users in Hungary (among those over 15 years of age) who browsed the World Wide Web at least once a week. Half of Internet users do not receive – or receive less and less – information from the traditional electronic and print media.

46% of respondents are the same with television: they don’t or barely watch the broadcast.