Majlis Research Center: 58.8% of Users Are Dissatisfied with Internet Speed and 73.5% with Package Prices / 64.7% Use VPNs to Access Foreign Social Networks / Those Buying Paid VPNs Spend 405,000 Tomans Monthly / 56% of Income Tied to Internet; Half Saw Income Drop During Recent Internet Outage

Findings from the Millat Public Opinion Survey by the Islamic Consultative Assembly Research Center on internet and digital technologies show that 58.8% of users are dissatisfied with internet speed and 73.5% with the price of internet packages.

Sitna: The results of the survey of the Nation's Opinion Center of the Islamic Council Research Center on the state of the Internet and digital technologies show that 58.8 percent of users are not satisfied with the speed of the Internet and 73.5 percent with the price of Internet packages.

Mellat's Opinion Center published a report "a selection of the findings of a survey to measure the views of the Iranian people on the state of the Internet and new digital technologies".

According to Sitna, according to this survey, 16.8% of respondents use the Internet less than one hour a day, while 39.7% are online between one and three hours, 20.4% three and five hours, 8.3% five and seven hours, and 9.6% at least seven hours a day. Four percent said that they do not use or do not have access to the Internet.

The most internet use among users is for entertainment (39.7 percent), social networks (32.1 percent) and business activities (25.2 percent). Also, 58.8% of users rated the internet speed as unfavorable and only 39% considered it favorable. In terms of price, 27.8% are not at all satisfied and 45.7% are slightly satisfied. The maximum optimal price of each gigabyte of mobile internet according to users is on average 13 thousand 500 tomans.

Half of mobile internet users (51.3%) prefer internet with current speed and price, while 41.3% want faster but more expensive internet. In terms of maintaining personal information, 31.1% trust internal social networks, 23.4% trust external networks, and 20.3% trust both.

Nearly two-thirds of the respondents (64.7%) use a filter breaker to access external social networks. People who buy non-free filters spend an average of 405,000 Tomans per month. Also, the income of more than half of the respondents or the head of their household (56%) is tied to the Internet, and the income of half of these people has decreased during the recent Internet outage.

41.6% of people use artificial intelligence tools; 26.9% sometimes and 14.7% mostly use these tools. About three quarters of users (78.6 percent) use ChatGPT more. The uses include education and skill training (30.5 percent), occupational uses (28.9 percent), medical and legal consulting (20.7 percent), and research and scientific activities (19.2 percent). 70.1% of users have significant confidence in the answers of this technology. The concern of 36.1 percent of users is the loss of thinking ability and human skills, followed by the concern of false information (23.1 percent) and replacement with jobs (17.7 percent).

People's priorities for Internet policy include removing filtering (38.7 percent), increasing speed (22.4 percent), strengthening internal social networks (17.1 percent), and reducing prices (15.8 percent). Only 21.6% of people were satisfied with the performance of the government of doctors to improve the internet situation in the last two years.