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  • Jan 18th, 2010
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Thai women account for more than 70 percent of all Internet users in the country and most of them connect at night, media reports said on January 16.

According to a survey conducted by the National Electronics and Computer Technology Centre (Nectec), some 72.5 percent of all Internet users in Thailand were female, and 52.3 percent of all user access the internet took place between 8 and 12 pm, The Nation newspaper reported.

The latest figures of the United Nations' International Telecommunication Union said that as of September 2009, Thailand had 16.1 million Internet users, or 24.4 percent of the population. The annual Nectec nation-wide survey conducted among almost 12,000 Internet users found that the majority of Internet users lived in Bangkok, were college graduates and had jobs.

Copyright Deutsche Presse-Agentur, 2010


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