Slovenia has already reached EU standards in many areas of the Information Society, according to a report on the implementation of the eEurope Action Plan, compiled by the EU acceding countries with the assistance of the European Commission. The eEurope initiative was launched in 2000 to bring Europe, especially the acceding countries, closer to meeting the goals of the Lisbon Strategy - to become the world's most competitive and dynamic knowledge-based economy.

Like most other acceding countries, Slovenia has made substantial progress in improving fixed line networks and upgrading them. With the entire network made digital, Slovenia has over 40 fixed phone lines per 100 population, which is significantly below the EU average. Yet the penetration of mobile phones outpaces the EU, as over 80 percent of the population had a mobile phone in 2003, a figure surpassed only by the Czech Republic among the acceding countries. The two countries are also closest to market saturation in mobile telephony, according to the report. The EU's average is just under 80 per 100 population, while the ten acceding countries plus Turkey, Bulgaria and Romania, have average mobile penetration of just over 40 per 100 population.

Slovenia is also a leader in terms of personal computers, as there are over 30 PCs per 100 people. Still, the average rate of penetration in Slovenia and other aspiring EU members is well below the EU average. Data for Internet access is encouraging, but suggests that the acceding countries still train behind. Interestingly for Slovenia, 62 percent of the respondents included in the survey had a PC at home - the highest figure among acceding countries - yet only 46 percent are connected to the Internet, which suggests a lot of room for growth. Also interesting is that computers in Slovenia are among the cheapest in Europe relative to the amount of monthly income spent on the purchase of an average computer. While Slovenian respondents put the price of a PC at 86 percent of their monthly income, their peers from acceding countries paid much more, ranging from 366 percent of their monthly income in Lithuania, to 213 percent in Bulgaria and 184 percent in Estonia.