UK Broadband Connectivity Exceeds 95%
The Office for National Statistics released their final report for Internet Connectivity at the end of last month, bringing these useful statistics to an end after 9 years of publishing.
The ONS concluded that 95.1% of all internet connections are now via broadband with a decrease of 57.1% of dial-up connections to December 2008.
Also interesting to learn was the speed of peoples internet connections, with 59.6% of broadband users subscribing to a services faster than 2Mbs, whilst the remaining 40.4% subscribed to a services of 2Mbs or slower.
10.7% of subscribers of these high speed subscribers were lucky enough to get speeds of greater than 8Mbs, a 10% increase over the number of 8Mbs+ connections since September of 2008.
The United Kingdom is now ranked 11th in the world for broadband penetration, with 27.6 broadband subscribers per 100 inhabitants, pushing it well infront of Australia, Japan, the United States, Italy and Spain.
Leaders in the Broadband penetration statistics were Denmark with 36.7 broadband subscribers per 100 inhabitants, followed closely by the Netherlands, Sweden, Norway & Iceland.