Press release 8/2015 from 01.03.2015 | Last changed: 23.01.2017
… electronics, and information and communication technologies in the period from 2004 to 2012. Preliminary results of the study do not yet provide any proof of … purchases were necessary because of technical defects in the old device (57.6% in 2004 and 55.6% in 2012/2013). The proportion of devices which had to be replaced within five years due to a defect rose quite sharply, from 3.5% in 2004 to 8.3% in 2012. Notebooks The average five-to-six-year first useful service …