20 April 2005
More and more people in the UK are switching their internet service provider and opting for high speed broadband connections according to new figures from the Office of National Statistics.
The latest survey of Internet Service Providers (ISPs) shows that between February 2004 and February 2005 there was a 1.9 per cent increase in the number of active subscriptions to the internet.
Permanent internet connections (broadband, cable and leased line technologies) continued to increase their market share and made up 43 per cent of all subscriptions in February 2005,up from 41 per cent in January 2005.
There was a year on year increase of 85.9 per cent for subscriptions for permanent connections, with a monthly increase in February of 5.7 per cent.
Subscribers who pay a fixed rate for unmetered dial-up access decreased to 22 per cent compared with 33 per cent a year before.
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