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United Kingdom Internet Usage Stats and Market Profile

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Internet Usage Statistics:
51,442,100 Internet users as of June/10, 82.5% of the population, according to ITU.

Latest Population Estimate:
62,348,447 population for 2010, according toUS Census Bureau.

Gross Domestic Produt:
GDP per capita is US$ 42,740 ('07) according toWorld Bank.

Country Size (Area):
The UK has 244,140 sq km - Population density is 255 persons per sq km.



Internet Usage and Population Statistics:

YEAR	Users	Population	% Pop.	Usage Source
2000	15,400,000	58,789,194	26.2 %	ITU
2005	35,807,929	59,889,407	59.8 %	Nielsen Net//Ratings
2007	38,512,837	60,363,602	63.8 %	Nielsen//NR
2009	48,755,000	61,113,205	79.8 %	Nielsen Online
2010	51,442,100	62,348,477	82.5 %	ITU

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The UK’s broadband infrastructure is characterised by excellent cross-platform competition, with comprehensive DSL complemented by cable networks which reach about half of all households. The DSL network has been upgraded during the last few years as a result of BT’s migration to its new 21CN, and by early 2011 more than five million users could access wholesale ADSL2+. Virgin Media has emerged as the best provider in terms of realised speeds, the company has rolled out a 100Mb/s service across much of its footprint, and it intended to launch a 200Mb/s service later in 2011. In addition, BT’s FttC/VDSL service should cover 66% of the population by 2015. The market remains fiercely competitive as a result of regulatory measures to provide competitor access to BT’s exchanges, while during 2010 similar measures were undertaken to ensure equal access on fibre networks. Broadband has also been characterised by falling prices and by a gradual increase in average data speeds, which reached 8Mb/s by mid-2010. This report profiles the overall UK broadband market in 2011, covering broadband technologies and including the latest statistics, an update on recent commercial initiatives, an assessment of Next Generation Access, and forecasts to 2020. See the table of content and 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

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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.

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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. For 2008 detailed informationclick here.


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