Ninety per cent of young people in the Azores with ages between 10 and 15 years old had access to the Internet in 2008, an increase of 39 per cent in relation to 2005.

According to a study by the National Statistics Institute (INE), access to computers in this age group, for the same period, increased from 73,6 per cent to 95,7 per cent presently.

Equally, the use of mobile telephones also increased significantly, from 52,4 per cent to 82,6 per cent, in the same period.

INE’s study shows that these figures for the Azores are at the same level as figures or the rest of the country.