The Nation Polling Center in Tir 1405 conducted a telephone survey of 1,100 people aged 15 and over across the country to examine the state of internet use and digital technologies.
The results of this survey show that more than 59 percent of users consider internet speed unsatisfactory, nearly 73 percent are dissatisfied with the price of packages, and 64.7 percent use VPNs to access foreign social networks.
Also, 41.6 percent of Iranians use artificial intelligence.
According to ITNA from the Research Center of the Islamic Consultative Assembly, the Nation Polling Center of this center published a report titled "A selection of findings from the survey measuring the views of the people of Iran about the state of the internet and modern digital technologies."
Half of Iranians are online more than 3 hours daily
According to this survey, 16.8 percent of respondents use the internet for less than one hour daily, while 39.7 percent use it between one and three hours, 20.4 percent three to five hours, 8.3 percent five to seven hours, and 9.6 percent are online at least seven hours a day.
Four percent also stated that they do not use the internet or do not have access.
73 percent dissatisfaction with internet prices
The most common uses of the internet among users are entertainment and leisure (39.7 percent), social networks (32.1 percent), and work activities (25.2 percent).
Also, 58.8 percent of users evaluated internet speed as unsatisfactory and only 39 percent considered it satisfactory.
In terms of price, 27.8 percent are not satisfied at all and 45.7 percent have little satisfaction. The maximum desirable price per gigabyte of mobile internet from users' perspective is on average 13,500 tomans.
Only 39 percent of users consider internet speed satisfactory
Half of mobile internet users (51.3 percent) prefer the internet at the current speed and price, while 41.3 percent want faster but more expensive internet.
Regarding protection of personal data, 31.1 percent trust domestic social networks, 23.4 percent trust foreign ones, and 20.3 percent trust both.
Two-thirds of users use VPNs
According to the Research Center of the Parliament, nearly two-thirds of respondents (64.7 percent) use VPNs to access foreign social networks.
Those who purchase paid VPNs spend on average 405,000 tomans per month. Also, the income of more than half of respondents or their household heads (56 percent) is tied to the internet, and the income of half of these people decreased during the recent internet outage.
41.6 percent of Iranians use artificial intelligence
41.6 percent of people use AI tools; 26.9 percent sometimes and 14.7 percent mostly use these tools. About three-quarters of users (78.6 percent) use ChatGPT the most.
Usage cases respectively include education and skill learning (30.5 percent), professional uses (28.9 percent), medical and legal consultation (20.7 percent), and research and scientific activities (19.2 percent).
70.1 percent of users have significant trust in the answers of this technology. 36.1 percent of users are concerned about the loss of human thinking ability and skills, followed by concern about misinformation (23.1 percent) and replacement of jobs (17.7 percent).
Policy-making and satisfaction with the government
According to this report, people's priorities for internet policymaking include lifting filtering (38.7 percent), increasing speed (22.4 percent), strengthening domestic social networks (17.1 percent), and reducing price (15.8 percent).
Only 21.6 percent of people have been satisfied with Motahari's government's performance in improving the internet situation over the past two years.