In 2018, enterprises with internet connection speeds over 100Mbit/s have nearly doubled reaching 10,2% of all enterprises, compared to 5,3% in the previous year. 35,4% of all enterprises have download speed over 30Mbit/s compared to 24,2% in 2017, the Cyprus Statistical Service found.
Internet speeds between 10Mbit/s and 30Mbit/s still remain the most popular among enterprises in Cyprus (38,1%).
Cloud Computing Services
In 2018, 26,6% of enterprises with at least 10 employees bought Cloud Computing Services compared to 10,2% in 2014. Cloud computing is very popular in the Information and Communication Sector (NACE Rev.2) in which half of the enterprises (51,1%) Â are using these services. (Figure 2)
The most common cloud computing services purchased were e-mail (21,7%), storage of files (17,7%), office software (15,9%) and finance or accounting software applications (8,2%).
E-Commerce
In 2017, 33,5% of all enterprises placed orders and 14,2% received orders for goods and services via computer networks. Enterprises prefer to do their purchases and sales via websites or apps.
Information and Communication Technologies (ICT) Specialists
In 2018, 22,8% of enterprises (10+) employ ICT specialists. 88,4% of large enterprises employ ICT specialists compared to 48,0% and 17,5% for medium and small enterprises respectively. 8,8% of all enterprises recruited or tried to recruit ICT specialists during 2017 with almost half of them (4,3%) facing difficulties in filling those vacancies.
Website
Following the trend of the last 2 years, the percentage of enterprises having a website is decreasing, from 74,7% in 2016 to 70,9% in 2018. Among the facilities provided by the enterprises through their website, the most common is the description of goods and services and price lists which is provided by the 70,9% of all enterprises.  44,7% of all enterprises have links or references to the enterprise’s social media profiles (i.e. Facebook, Twitter, LinkedIn, You Tube, etc.) and 12,7%  offer personalized content for regular / repeated visitors.
| Table1 | Â | Â | Â | Â | Â | Â |
| Download Speed (% on total number of enterprises (10+)) |
2013 |
2014 |
2015 |
2016 |
2017 |
2018 |
| Less than 2 Mbit/s |
3,5 |
1,1 |
1,1 |
0,6 |
0,9 |
1,0 |
| At least 2 Mbit/s but less than 10 Mbit/s |
70,5 |
68,5 |
62,0 |
41,7 |
25,5 |
19,8 |
| At least 10 Mbit/s but less than 30 Mbit/s |
16,6 |
21,4 |
25,1 |
39,4 |
44,0 |
38,1 |
| At least 30 Mbit/s but less than 100 Mbit/s |
1,9 |
4,6 |
5,8 |
11,8 |
18,9 |
25,2 |
| At least 100 Mbit/s |
0,8 |
0,5 |
1,0 |
2,6 |
5,3 |
10,2 |
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