23 November 2007
Nine in ten Britons now have a home broadband connection, new figures from the Office of National Statistics (ONS) show.
The 88.4% figure represents a rise of 26% over the past 12 months - although the rate of broadband uptake has risen just 2.2% over the past quarter.
This could mean that the market is becoming increasingly static - which might in turn increase competitiveness within the industry, benefiting consumers.
As a mark of how fast the broadband industry has progressed in the UK, rates of the connections stood below 20% as recently as 2003.
Tim Johnson, of analysis firm Point-Topic, told the BBC that around 10 million British homes without an internet connection remained.
"With almost 40% of British households on the wrong side of the digital divide, the social and economic progress of the UK will be stalled unless the great majority of these homes can be brought on to the internet," he said.
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