As Internet access via third generation mobile telephony and Internet over TV will break the dependency on computers (33% of EU households) to obtain Internet access, penetration rates are expected to grow extremely rapidly over the next five years.
It has the following functions: telephony, telephone answering, sending and receiving of messages (e.g. faces and e-mails) in electronic form via a telephone line, Internet access, execution of different software (telephone directory, word-processing, calendar).
