Internet in the Czech Republic and Internet access is mostly provided by the private sector and is available in various forms, using various technologies, at various speeds and costs. By 2013, 68% of Czechs are connected to the Internet.
Video Internet in the Czech Republic
Status
- Internet users: 7.6 million, 45 in the world; 75.0% of the population, 37 in the world (2012).
- Fixed broadband: 1.7 million subscriptions, 46 in the world; 16.6% of the population, 56 in the world (2012).
- Mobile broadband: 4.5 million subscriptions, 41 in the world; 44.0% of the population, 36 in the world (2012).
- Hosting: 4.1 million, 27 in the world (2012).
- IPv4: 8.0 million addresses allocated, 0.2% of the world total, 790 per 1,000 people (2012).
- Upper-level domain:.cz
Maps Internet in the Czech Republic
Wireless
Wi-Fi
Because ADSL is very expensive for an average worker in the early days, a large number of wireless ISPs (based on Wi-Fi 802.11 technology) appear to offer monthly plans at sensible prices since 2003. At the beginning of 2008, there were over 800 WISPs are mostly locals who have a huge market share of Internet access. It is estimated that Wi-Fi ISPs had about 350,000 subscribers in 2007. The Czech Republic has the largest number of Wi-Fi subscribers across the EU. There are commercial and community wireless networks.
Mobile
Mobile internet is quite popular. Plans based on GPRS, EDGE, UMTS, or CDMA2000 are offered by the four mobile phone operators (T-Mobile, Vodafone, Telefonica O2, and U: fon). The average cost for a 1.5 GB mobile internet package is around 25 Euro/month. Various traffic shaping (monthly data limits after dramatically decreasing speed) is used under the common name "Fair Usage Policy".
- Mobile data plan comparison
Wired
ADSL/VDSL
In the Czech Republic, ADSL became commercially available in early 2003, by the current monopolist? EskÃÆ'½ Telecom with a base speed of 192/64 kbit/s to 1024/256 kbit/s. ADSL start-up is very slow because the plan is too expensive (~ EUR350 per month for 1024/256 kbit). At the beginning of 2004, local loop unbundling begins, and alternative operators begin offering ADSL (as well as SDSL). This, and then the privatization of Cesky Telecom, helps lower prices. On July 1, 2006, "EskÃÆ'½ Telecom was renamed TelefÃÆ'³nica O2 Czech Republic In 2009 ADSL2 was offered in three variants, mostly without data limits (Fair User Policy - limiting link speed based on amount of data transferred.) Speeds vary depending on length circle up to 20 Mbit/s.
ADSL/VDSL connections (no limits/No data limits) are offered from 20/2Mbit to 100/10Mbit. For short local loops, the 250/25 Mbit/s plan is offered by some VDSL3 (G.Fast) internet providers. Speed ​​and book-entry vary by each ISP.
Cable
Cable Internet is becoming increasingly popular with higher download speeds of up to 300 Mbit/s. The largest ISP, UPC (which has purchased another CATV internet provider at Karneval in 2007) provides its services in major cities and interesting locations (Prague, Brno, Ostrava, Liberec, Usti nad Labem, Olomouc, Umperk, Uni? Ov , JesenÃÆ'k).
- UPC Price (2017)
Internet censorship and surveillance
There are no government restrictions on access to the Internet or credible reports that the government monitors e-mail or Internet chat rooms without judicial oversight. Individuals and groups engage in free expression of views over the Internet, including via e-mail.
The law provides for free speech and pressure, and the government generally respects these rights. Independent press, effective judiciary, and a functioning democratic political system combine to ensure freedom of speech and the press. However, the law provides for some exceptions to this freedom, for example, in the case of "hate speech", Holocaust denial, and the denial of Communist-era crimes. The law prohibits arbitrary interference with privacy, family, home, or correspondence, and the government generally respects this prohibition in practice.
Since January 1, 2017, internet service providers are required to prevent accessing "internet sites" listed on unauthorized internet game lists. The list is administered by the Ministry of Finance of the Czech Republic. Motivation is to create barriers in achieving unregulated foreign lotteries and not be imposed by Czech citizens and to protect the lottery companies that comply with Czech regulations.
In October 2011, the Czech Pirate Party filed a petition signed by 11,000 people who protested an attempt to censor the internet and demanded a law that ensures censorship free access to the internet and search.
On May 6, 2010, T-Mobile Czech Republic officially announced that it began blocking web pages promoting child pornography, child prostitution, child trafficking, pedophilia and illegal sexual contact with children. T-Mobile claims that its blocking is based on the URL of the Internet Watch Foundation list and on individual direct request made by the customer.
On August 13, 2009, TelefÃÆ'³nica O2 Czech Republic, cellular operator and DSL mobile carrier, began blocking access to sites listed by the Internet Watch Foundation. The company said it wanted to replace the list with data provided by Czech Police. The launch of the blocking system attracts public attention due to serious network service difficulties and innocent sites that are wrongly blocked. The specific blocking implementation is unknown but it is believed that the recursive DNS server provided by the operator to its customers has been modified to return a false reply that redirects the consequent TCP connection to the HTTP firewall.
Since 2008, T-Mobile and Vodafone cellular operators have passed mobile Internet traffic and remain through Cleanfeed, which uses data provided by the Internet Watch Foundation to identify pages believed to contain indecent childrens photos, and racist material.
See also
- .cz, Czech top level domain.
- CZ.NIC, Czech Network Information Center (domain operator).
- CSIRT.CZ, Cyber ​​Security Response Team â € <â €
- Neutral Internet Exchange Czech Republic (NIX.CZ)
References
External links
- cz.nic homepage, Czech Network Information Center (in Czech) .
- Forget, the server dedicated to the Internet in the Czech Republic (in Czech) .
- NIX.CZ, Neutral Internet eXchange from the Czech Republic.
Source of the article : Wikipedia
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