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Elon Musk’s Starlink Internet Comes to Greece

Elon Musk's Starlink satellites officially brought high-speed internet services to Greece on Thursday. Although the company's plan to provide internet via satellite was approved by Greece in fall of last year, Starlink internet was made available on Thursday. The Starlink project...

New Greek Satellites Aim to Increase Country’s Internet Speeds

A series of new Greek satellites from the company Hellas Sat will feature cutting-edge technology that may increase the country's internet speeds, according to the company's CEO. Hellas Sat CEO Christodoulos Protopapas stated to AMNA that the satellites, which will...

Internet Speed in Greece at a Snail’s Pace

Internet speeds in Greece - both at home and on mobile - are incredibly slow, as they trail the global average by six spots. According to Speedtest Global Index, which compares international data speeds each month, Greece ranks 31st out...

Internet Use Skyrockets in Greece During Lockdown

Internet use skyrocketed in Greece while the country's population was under a strict lockdown, data from Greek market researcher Focus Bari suggests.

One Quarter of Greek Women Did Not Use the Internet Last Year

According to data released by the European Union's "Women in Digital Scoreboard 2020" on Tuesday, one in four Greek women did not use the internet at all last year. In all of Europe, just one in ten women had not...

Elon Musk’s SpaceX Set to Bring Starlink Internet to Greece

SpaceX, the space company of high-tech entrepreneur Elon Musk, plans to make its Starlink broadband satellite internet service available in Greece in the first quarter of 2021, Greek daily Kathimerini reports. According to the report, the company has reached out...

Greeks Urged to Keep Off Internet as School E-Learning System Crashes

Greek authorities advised the general public to reduce their use of the internet as it emerged on Monday that the state school e-learning system crashed after just one hour. As junior and senior high school students started online lessons due...

Underwater Cable Accidentally Cut, Leaving Most of Greece Without Internet

An underwater fiber optic cable from Bulgaria owned by Vodafone was accidentally severed around noon Wednesday, leaving most of the country without internet service. Many business dealings came to a screeching halt at the time since most of Greece uses...

Greece Lags Far Behind on Internet Speed, New Survey Says

Greece is in 56th place in world rankings based on citizens' average internet speed, according to a survey carried out by a specialist website published on Thursday. According to the figures, compiled by WebsiteToolTester.com, Taiwan ranks first in the world...

Greek Mobile Companies Pledge to Change Internet Data Charges Following Meeting with PM

Premier Kyriakos Mitsotakis held a meeting with representatives of mobile phone companies at the Prime Minister's residence of Maximos Mansion on Friday. According to sources, the meeting focused on the digital transformation of the country, Greece's low performance in terms of global...

Internet Access in Greece Rises by 69.2% in the Last Nine Years, Study Finds

A recent study conducted by ELSTAT, Greece's Statistics Authority, found that internet access in Greek households has increased by nearly 70 percent in the last nine years  since 2010. This year also saw 2.6 percent more households using a variety...

Greeks Have the Most Expensive Mobile Internet in Europe (graph)

The average costs for 1GB of mobile data across Europe has been revealed recently, with Greeks paying by far the most, and Ukrainians the least. Data gathered by HowMuch.net  in 2018 from 6,313 mobile data plans shows a stark disparity...

Greek Start-Up Company Facilitates Remote Brain Imaging Using the Internet

Advantis Medical Imaging is a Greek start-up company which aims to make brain imaging more accessible to more people by using modern technology and the internet. Speaking with Greece's Kathimerini newspaper recently, co-founder of the company Paris Ziogas explained the...

Google Celebrates Greek Computer Scientist who Predicted Internet's Dominance

Google's latest doodle pays tribute to Michael Dertouzos, the Greek computer scientist who anticipated how the internet would come to dominate almost every aspect of our lives. Monday's Google homepage image honors the late academic, who died in 2001, on...

Greeks Rank 2nd in Europe for Addiction to Internet, Study Shows

ANA-MPA reported that Greece ranks second in Europe after the United Kingdom for rates of internet addiction among its population, according to a study conducted by nine European universities in collaboration with the Hellenic Association for the Study of...