According to Eurostat, in 2025, 94% of EU residents have gone online at least once in the last three months, while only 4% have not used the internet in a year. Almost nine out of ten Europeans accessed the web from mobile devices.
Price gap from €50 to €6.6
The most expensive Internet in the EU – in Luxembourg, where the average subscription fee reaches 49.99 euros per month, follows from the study of the service Broadband Genie, which analyzed 2,631 tariffs in 214 countries. Euronews refers to it.
The prices are slightly lower in the Netherlands and Finland – 48.73 and 48 euros, respectively.
Despite the high tariffs, the Netherlands and Luxembourg have the highest levels of internet usage in the EU in 2025.
At the other pole is Romania, where broadband costs an average of €6.66 per month, one of the lowest in the world. Lithuania (14.90 euros) and Bulgaria (15 euros) follow.
Between 2015 and 2025, the share of households with an internet connection in Bulgaria increased by 34% and in Romania by 28%.
Access is not just about price
The level of internet availability and the cost of broadband in Europe depends largely on geography.
Eastern Europe has the lowest internet prices in the world at a sub-regional level, primarily due to the widespread use of fiber optic networks, which are recognized as the fastest and most stable type of connection and easily provide speeds of up to 10 Gbps.
Its high prevalence in the region is partly due to the fact that infrastructure modernization here started later, and countries have been able to largely bypass outdated telecommunications systems.
Southern Europe, on the other hand, has the fourth highest availability among the 22 subregions examined.
Northern and Western Europe, on the other hand, has the highest Internet costs on the continent.
Internet access is higher in cities
As the authors of the Broadband Genie study note, the cost of broadband access in these countries correlates with higher overall living costs.
But it’s not just prices that vary across Europe: residents’ level of internet access also depends on whether they live in urban or rural areas.
In Denmark, Finland, Ireland, the Netherlands, Luxembourg and the Netherlands, the level of internet connectivity in urban areas exceeded 99%.
Rural areas in Ireland, the Netherlands and Denmark also have the highest rates of internet connectivity in 2025 – over 99% in each of these countries.
Greece, Bulgaria, Croatia, Greece, Portugal and Bulgaria have the lowest rural connectivity rates.
