Just 3.8% of Italy's small and medium-sized companies sell goods and services online, according to national statistics bureau ISTAT.
Some 90% of the Italian companies, regardless of their size, use personal computers, e-mail and have the Internet connection, ISTAT said in a report on IT use in businesses with at least 10 employees.
According to the survey, 42.6% of the employees use computers, while one in three works on computers connected to a network. A total 47% of the businesses hooked up to the Internet carry out administrative services online.
At the smaller companies the use of IT is rarer, while those with more than 50 employees more often use new technologies in the corporate management systems.
Some 30% of the businesses employing at least 10 people carried out at least one online purchase themselves in 2006. (ANSA).
