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Half Of UK Households To Own Digital TV By 2005
News Half of all UK households will own a digital TV by 2005, according to a report by the Internet research company Jupiter MMXI. Over seven million British households already have digital TV -- a figure that is rapidly approaching a third of all...
[July 17, 2001, 12:19]
Half UK Net Households Are Regular Users, Says Report
News Only about half of Internet-connected households regularly use the Internet, but the proportion is rising according to research published Tuesday. Nearly a quarter of British households -- seven million -- have Internet access, Media Metrix found.
[August 16, 2000, 9:41]
VoIP Takes Off
News Ten percent of UK households are now using various forms of Internet telephony, thanks to the runaway success of broadband. According to a report into the communications market published by regulator Ofcom on Thursday, more than 1.8 million...
[August 10, 2006, 16:25]
UK Trails Europe In Broadband Uptake
News The number of households with broadband Internet connections in the UK is lower than any other country in Europe, according to the latest research from Nielsen//NetRatings. Only 9 percent of UK households have a high-speed connection to the Net...
[September 9, 2002, 11:38]
Nearly Half Of UK Homes Now Online
News The British telecoms regulator has concluded that the UK has a competitive market for narrowband Internet access, with nearly half of all UK households now being online. Forty-five percent of British homes are connected to the Internet -- a 15...
[January 29, 2002, 17:06]
Internet TV Drives Broadband Uptake
News The number of UK broadband households has almost doubled in the past year, with another three million households now switched on to DSL. As of the end of September, the UK had 6,381,000 DSL connections - a growth of 91 per cent in one year.
[December 20, 2005, 12:35]
UK Moving Up Broadband Rankings
News Now four percent of UK households have broadband connections -- whether via ADSL or cable or the less popular access technologies of wireless and satellite -- but 10 percent of urban households will be connected by the start of 2004.
[December 11, 2002, 14:12]
UK Rural Broadband Penetration Overtakes Urban
News Across the UK as a whole, the statistics show there is a greater proportion of households with high-speed internet access in the countryside than in built-up areas: 59 percent to 57 percent. The research also looked at homes that rely solely on...
[May 23, 2008, 8:27]
Scandinavia Shames UK In Broadband League
News In contrast, in the UK the figure is a meagre 2.3 percent of Internet-connected households, or just 210,600 homes. In August, a total of 9.1m UK households were connected to the Internet. Almost 14 percent of Internet-connected Swedish households...
[October 1, 2001, 17:19]
2001: Britons Get Comfortable Online
News With nine million households having an Internet connection -- representing more than a third of all UK households -- the home was rapidly emerging as the most popular place for Britons to access the Internet.
[December 30, 2001, 6:31]
BT Promises A New Broadband Exchange A Day
News The pledge is part of the company's target of making ADSL available to 90 percent of UK households by the middle of 2005. Danon also told the e-Summit that BT was launching a new product called "Midband", designed for the 10 percent of households...
[November 20, 2002, 12:51]
UK Bottom Of Broadband League Table
News In the UK only one in 32 online households (a mere 3.1 percent) have a broadband connection, whereas one in every two online families in Korea enjoys high-speed services. France has one in 16 households connected via broadband, twice that enjoyed...
[April 3, 2001, 6:18]
UK Home PC Survey Depicts Haves, Have-nots
News The Family Expenditure Survey covered the 12 months between April 1996 and March 1997 and revealed that 26.7 per cent of UK households now own a PC. The figures also indicate a north-south divide with 43 per cent of households in London and the...
[October 31, 1997, 11:21]
What Has Broadband Done For Us?
News By the end of this year, some 1.8 million households in the UK will have access to high-speed Internet services, or just over 5 percent of all households nationwide. Eventually, all UK tax services will be available electronically, including secure...
[March 31, 2004, 12:15]
Dixons Launches Free ISP Service
News According to the firm comparable ISP offerings cost around £12/month, costing the 1.16 million online UK households around £165m a year. There are thousands of households that would struggle to justify spending £12/month in addition to phone...
[September 22, 1998, 11:48]
Broadband Blunders Hit UK Online
News The report reveals that in the last 12 months, 38 percent of UK households have connected to the Internet, with 51 percent of adults accessing the Internet from home, work or a public access point. But in September 2001, only 180,000 broadband...
[December 4, 2001, 12:52]
Broadband Britain Storms To Three Million Customers
News In the last five years the Internet has moved from the margins to the mass market, with half of all UK households and two-thirds of businesses now online. Oftel says that more than 40,000 households and businesses a week are currently receiving a...
[December 10, 2003, 11:35]
'Urgent Action Needed' Over Broadband Divide
News One of the leading figures in the UK broadband scene has demanded immediate action to address the fact that one in three households cannot get affordable broadband. Recent official figures indicate that some 63 percent of households and 68...
[October 21, 2002, 14:17]
Broadband Revolution On Hold For Next Five Years
News Only 30 percent of online households in the UK are expected to have a broadband connection by 2005, just 15 percent of all homes. According to the report -- Hooked on Dial-up: Consumer ISP Trends and Market Share -- most US households will still be...
[April 19, 2001, 15:41]
Low Income Families Close The Digital Divide
News Fears that a socio-economic Internet division is forming in the UK are contradicted by the new Jupiter figures, revealing that households with annual incomes below £15,000 now represent 17.3 percent of Britons online.
[March 20, 2001, 6:36]
