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United
Kingdom
Internet Usage Stats
and Market Report
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Internet Usage Statistics:
38,512,837
Internet users as of Sept/06, 63.8% of the population, according
to Nielsen Ner//Ratings.
Latest Population
Estimate:
60,363,602
population for 2007, according to world-gazetteer.
Gross National
Income:
GNI per
capita is US$ 33,940 ('05) according to World
Bank.
Country Size
(Area):
The UK has
244,140 sq km - Population density is 247 persons per sq km.
Internet Usage and
Population Statistics:
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YEAR
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Users
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Population
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% Pop.
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Usage
Source
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2000
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15,400,000
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58,789,194
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26.2 %
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ITU
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2005
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35,807,929
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59,889,407
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59.8 %
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Nielsen Net//Ratings
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2007
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38,512,837
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60,363,602
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63.8 %
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Nielsen//NR
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United Kingdom
Telecommunications Market Reports
United Kingdom Broadband
Market - Overview & Statistics report
The UK has one of the more competitive markets in Europe for
broadband, largely as a result of government encouragement and
regulatory pressure. Competition exists at both the
infrastructure level between cable Internet providers and xDSL
and between numerous service providers competing with the
incumbent, British Telecom (BT), to provide retail xDSL services
to customers. The country reported the highest broadband growth
in Europe in 2005. This Paul Budde report profiles the overall
British broadband market, covering broadband technologies and
including latest statistics and an update on recent development
and commercial initiatives. In addition, the report includes
research on fibre and broadband powerline networks, and looks
ahead to broadband capabilities in 2006 and beyond. See the table of content and
summary
Belgium Convergence -
Triple Play & Digital TV report
The incumbent, Belgacom, is gradually losing market share in the
telephone market as cable TV companies and other providers offer
VoIP and mobile services to their traditional pay TV and
broadband packages. Cable TV companies are also developing
Video-on-Demand (VoD) services, and a range of media rich and
interactive TV developments. Belgium has a relatively small and
highly concentrated broadcasting sector, characterised by
regional and language variations. A large majority of homes
passed for cable subscribe to digital services. This report
presents a review of triple play developments in 2005, and a
comprehensive overview of the country’s broadcasting
market, providing statistics on the major service providers. It
also notes the status of digital, cable and satellite TV.
Buy the complete
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UK Telecom Market Key
Statistics & Regulatory Overviews
The UK has one of the largest and most advanced telecom
markets in Europe. Mobile phone penetration approached 105% by
the end of 2005, while almost 59% of the population use the
Internet and broadband penetration was above 10%. This report
introduces the key aspects of the UK’s telecom market in
2005 and early 2006, presenting the latest data and statistics on
the Internet, broadband, mobile and fixed network services
sectors. In addition, this report overviews the key regulatory
issues, noting the new regulatory framework introduced in 2003,
the 2005 Strategic Review, the status of interconnection, Local
Loop Unbundling (LLU), number portability and carrier
preselection. The report reviews the major fixed network telecom
operators in the UK, and examines the status of fixed network
voice services. See the table of content and
summary
United Kingdom Mobile
Market - Overview & Statistics
The UK has one of the largest and most advanced mobile
markets in Europe, serviced by five major providers and a number
of MVNOs. 3G licences were issued at the height of the dot com
boom, which generated over 22 billion for the government but
shackled the licensees with enormous debt. Mobile penetration
reached 100% in 2005, and subscriber growth continues steadily.
Four operators have launched 3G services, and fierce competition
has eroded ARPU and kept prices favourable for consumers. This
report surveys the UK’s mobile market in 2005 and early
2006, providing an overview of mobile statistics, regulatory
issues and technologies. It also profiles the major operators and
MVNOs, and looks ahead to mobile developments in 2006 and
beyond. Get the full report
here
United Kingdom
Convergence, Triple Play & Digital TV
Report
The UK has an excellent broadband infrastructure, with
sophisticated DSL and cable networks providing increasingly
faster speeds. The country’s broadcasting industry is also
among the most advanced and well-served in Europe. It was one of
the first countries to embrace digital TV, and now has a vibrant
multichannel environment, largely due to the success of digital
satellite TV and Free-to-Air Digital Terrestrial TV. Digital
cable TV is also available. This report examines the UK’s
broadband market in 2005 and early 2006 together with
developments in triple play services, Video-on-Demand (VoD) and
VoIP. It also introduces the country’s broadcasting,
markets providing statistics and analysis on the closing analogue
FTA environment, the interactive and pay TV sectors, and
developments in digital TV. The report covers the latest
statistics from the regulator relating to its 2005 Public Service
Broadcasting review and Digital Progress Report. See the table of contents and
report summary
United Kingdom Internet Usage
and Broadband
June, 2004
Internet access
" 59% of UK homes have a
PC
" 52% of homes (around 12.8
million) have Internet access
" 68% of small businesses have
Internet access
Broadband
" 3.2 million broadband
connections
" 1.82 million DSL
connections
" 1.36 million cable modem
connections
" 12% of homes have
broadband
" DSL is available to 85% of UK
homes and businesses
Definitions
‘Dial-up’ or
‘narrowband’ Internet access is used in this brief
for access speeds up to and including 128 kilobits per second
(kbps).
'Broadband' is used in this brief
to refer to higher bandwidth, always-on services, offering data
rates of 128 kbps and above.
This definition of broadband is
used by Ofcom for the purposes of measuring take-up in order to
capture the dynamic range of services available to residential
and business consumers that are classed by the industry as
broadband. This definition gives Ofcom data that is comparable
with broadband take-up figures published by other countries in
Europe.
Source: Ofcom Research, January 2004
Update, June 18,
2004
Latest official figures from the
Office of National Statistics (ONS) indicate that subscriptions
to the Net have grown almost 10%, with more net users switching
to broadband.
Subscriptions for dial-up and broadband Internet connections
continued to show opposing patterns of annual growth. The year on
year decrease to April 2004 was 6.8% for dial-up connections with
a decrease of 1.9% from March 2004 to April 2004. There was a
year on year increase of 101.1% for broadband connections with a
monthly increase of 6.1%.
Broadband now accounts for 27.2% of Internet connections, up
2.5% on the previous month and up 14.5% on a year ago. Dial-up
subscriptions saw a 6.8% year-on-year decrease.
Increased competition between broadband providers has resulted
in a "gold rush" for consumers, with competition giving more
choice and cheaper deals.
More people in the UK can now access broadband. BT's latest
stats are that 96% of customers are within range of broadband
access, with a target of 99.6% for the summer of 2005.
June 2 2004: Broadband and DTV on the rise says Ofcom
June 2 2004: BT launches satellite broadband service
UK Households with home access
to the Internet, 1998-2004
In the second quarter of 2004, 52 per cent of households in the
UK (12.8 million) could access the Internet from home, compared
with just 9 per cent (2.2 million) in the same quarter of 1998.
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