Footnotes

¹ 91 % of respondents to the (non-representative) consumer survey used the Internet for longer than two years, and 87 % of respondents already have broadband access.

² The following categories were used to rate “intensity” questions consistently throughout the study: very low, low, medium, high, very high.

³ Cf. PISA (2003), summary of findings from second comparative international survey.

⁴ Cf. TNS Infratest (2005), Monitoring Informationswirtschaft - 8. Faktenbericht 2005.

⁵ Cf. ADL (2005), The Arthur D. Little Global Broadband Report Update 2005.

⁶ Cf. BITKOM (2005), Daten zur Informationsgesellschaft. Status quo und Perspektiven Deutschlands im Internationalen Vergleich.

⁷ Cf. ZDNet (2005), “Breitband Internet in Europa auf dem Vormarsch”, available at: http://www.zdnet.de/news/tkomm/0,39023151,39135375,00.htm, called up on Oct. 14, 2005.

⁸ Cf. TNS Infratest (2005), Monitoring Informationswirtschaft - 8. Faktenbericht 2005.

⁹ According to the data up to 2004: Berg/Ridder (2002), Massenkommunikation VI. Klinger/Müller (2004), Hörfunk behauptet Stärke. In: Media Perspektiven 9/2004. SevenOne Media (2004), TimeBudget 11 - Aktuelle Ergebnisse der Langzeitstudie zur Mediennutzung. Wirtz (2005), Medien- und Internetmanagement.