; 56% have their own website and 91% are email users.
             · The present survey is of 726 firms with six or more full-time staff.
             There are large differences between the ways that large and small firms connect to the Internet. Smaller firms tend to use dial-up (61%) compared with 25% of large firms, which tend to use frame relay or ADSL.
             Research by Stephen Bowden et al ('Adoption and Implementation of E-
             Business in New Zealand') indicates that although New Zealanders are recognised for their quick uptake of new technologies, New Zealand businesses are in fact 'laggards' when it comes to ecommerce.
             · 92% of organisations sampled used a computer
             · 21% of organisations had a website capable of taking orders
             · 8% of organisations could handle taking payments online
             With respect to other New Zealand ecommerce activities:
             · 50% of organisations purchased supplies online
             · 33% of organisations were involved i
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