The use of the Internet in Slovenia is widespread. According to official polls in the first quarter of 2008, 58% of citizens between the ages 10 and 74 were internet users,(2008-10-01
Internet usage in households and by individuals, Slovenia, 1st quarter 2008
Statistical Office of the Republic of Slovenia. Accessed 2009-03-22. which is above

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average. In the same period, 59% of households (85% of which were through broadband) and 97% of companies with 10 or more employed (84% of those through broadband) had internet access.(2008-10-01
Internet usage in enterprises with 10 or more persons employed, Slovenia, 1st quarter 2008
Statistical Office of the Republic of Slovenia. Accessed 2009-03-22. In 2011, 73% of households had internet access, and 67% of households had broadband. As of 2011, 29% of Slovenians had never used the internet. The use of the internet for specific purposes ( online banking, e-Government services,

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, reading online newspapers, etc.) is near the average for

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. The country's

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. It is administered by ARNES, the Academic and Research Network of Slovenia. The organization also provides access to educational and research institutions. Other major providers are Telekom Slovenije (under the trademark SiOL),

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AMIS Amis may refer to: * Amis (surname) * Amis people (or ''Amis''), a tribe of Taiwanese aborigines * Amis language, an indigenous language of Taiwan * AMIS (ISP), an Internet service provider (ISP) in Slovenia and Croatia * Amis et Amiles, an old ...

and T-2. Slovenian ISPs provide ADSL, ADSL2+, VDSL,

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, VDSL2 and FTTH. Slovenia is noted as one of the leading European countries by the percentage of users who browse the web using

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. In 2007, 47.9% of page requests were made with Firefox, more than in any other European country.

History

Allocation of IPv4 Address Space in Slovenia The first IP connection in the country was established between

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and the Dutch NIKHEF institute in October 1991. The laboratory for open systems and networks at the Jožef Stefan Institute housed the primary domain server for the

.yu .yu was the Internet country code top-level domain (ccTLD) that was assigned to SFR Yugoslavia in 1989 and was mainly used by the Federal Republic of Yugoslavia and its successor states after 1994. After Serbia and Montenegro acquired separate ...

domain at the time. The

top-level domain was registered in 1992 after Slovenia gained independence, but the use of .yu TLD continued for several years and only in the second half of the 1990s was the registry transferred to University of Belgrade. Similarly, the use of

X.400 X.400 is a suite of ITU-T Recommendations that defines the ITU-T Message Handling System (MHS). At one time, the designers of X.400 were expecting it to be the predominant form of email, but this role has been taken by the SMTP-based Internet e-m ...

and X.25 protocols by ARNES continued for several years due to established European research institutes' preference for

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standards. In a telephone poll of households in 1996, 6.5% of the population declared themselves as internet users, although the number was probably overestimated due to methodological problems.

Internet censorship and surveillance

There are no government restrictions on access to the internet or credible reports that the government monitors e-mail or chat rooms without appropriate legal authority. The constitution and law provide for freedom of speech and press, and the government generally respects these rights. However, the law prohibits

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, including incitement to intolerance as well as violence. The law provides criminal penalties for

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that harms a person’s honor or name. The constitution and laws prohibit arbitrary interference with privacy, family, home, or correspondence and the government generally respects these prohibitions in practice. Individuals and groups freely engage in the expression of views via the internet."Slovenia"
''Country Reports on Human Rights Practices for 2012'', Bureau of Democracy, Human Rights and Labor, U.S. Department of State, 26 March 2013. Retrieved 1 November 2013. The independent organization Helpline Spletno Oko (Web Eye) monitors the presence of hate speech and child pornography on the internet and received on average 62 reports and tips per month in 2012. On 28 January 2010, the Slovenian National Assembly adopted changes to the law governing gambling. Under the law, internet service providers are responsible for blocking access to gambling web sites that are not licensed by the Slovenian government."''Nesmiselna blokada spletnih stavnic''" (Unreasonable seizure of betting)
Blaz Petkovic and Katja Svenšek, Dnevnik.si, 1 March 2011
English translation

References

External links

RIS - Raba Interneta v Sloveniji
a non-profit research project tracking the use of Internet in Slovenia
SISPA
Slovene Internet Service Provider Association {{DEFAULTSORT:Internet In Slovenia Slovenia