Broadband prevails for UK internet
Kablenet.com
Published: 21 Nov 2007 08:48 GMT
Nearly nine out of 10 connections to the internet in the UK are now made via broadband, according to the latest quarterly survey from the Office for National Statistics.
In a survey of internet connectivity carried out in September 2007, the ONS found that broadband accounted for 88.4 percent of all internet connections, up from 86.2 percent in June 2007. Dial-up connections accounted for just 11.6 percent of the total.
Information collected from internet service providers shows nearly half of connections — 49.2 percent — had an advertised maximum speed of more than 2Mbps. It does not, however, make clear how many matched the advertised speeds or how close they came.
"The speed advertised for each subscription may not be the speed attained by the end user, as attained speed of connection is affected by issues such as distance from the local exchange and line quality," the survey says.
The index of all connections rose to 117.6 in September 2007, compared with the base month of 100 in March 2005. The index increased by 1.5 percent between June and September, reaching 117.7 compared with a base month of 100 in March 2005.
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