THE UK BY NUMBERS
COMMUNICATIONS THE UK BY NUMBERS
We present an at-a-glance overview of the key issues in Britain today. In this issue our focus is on communications. All statistics are from Ofcom, the independent communications regulator
Home media use
Telecoms revenues fell by £0.7bn to £38.8bn during 2012, as a £0.3bn increase in retail fixed broadband revenues, a £0.2bn increase in retail mobile voice and data service revenues, and a rise of less than £0.1bn in corporate data service revenues were offset by a £0.3bn fall in retail fixed call and access revenues and declining wholesale revenues. The UK television industry generated revenue of £12.3bn in 2012, an increase of 0.8% on 2011, while total UK radio industry revenue stood at £1.2bn in 2012, up by 2.7% on the previous year. Source: Ofcom: The Communications Market 2013
Digital TV
Proportion of UK homes with digital TV Q1 2013 Minutes spent watching TV per day (person aged 4+) Proportion of homes with a DVR Radio
Proportion of radio listeners with a DAB radio in their household
Proportion of listener hours through a digital platform (DAB, online DTV)
Minutes spent listening to radio per day (among radio listeners)
Number of local radio stations broadcasting on analogue (excluding community stations)
Number of community radio stations currently on air Number of national radio stations (analogue and DAB)
Internet Total household internet take-up
Number of fixed residential broadband connections Proportion of adults with broadband (fixed and mobile) Proportion of adults with mobile broadband
Superfast broadband take-up (proportion of non-corporate connections)
Average actual broadband speed Proportion of homes with a PC or Laptop
Proportion of people who use their mobile to access the internet
Number of mobile broadband subscriptions (dongles/PC datacard)
97%
241 (4 hours) 53%
44% 34% 170 (2 hours 50 minutes) 338
207 27
80%
21.7 million (Dec 2012) 75% 5%
17.5%
12.0Mbit/s (Nov 2012) 79% 49%
4.917m (Dec 2012)
“People are sheep. TV is the shepherd” Jess C. Scott
15% 39% 55%
20 SOCIETY NOW AUTUMN 2013
Percentage of people who now live in a mobile-only household. Mobile subscriptions have reached 82.7 million
Percentage of homes that have Freeview on their main TV set. Freeview offers up to 50 digital TV channels
Percentage of adults with home internet who use social networking sites such as Facebook, Twitter, Pinterest etc
More than half a million subscribers have signed up to 4G mobile services. There were more than 500,000 subscribers to EE’s 4G mobile service seven months after its launch at the end of May 2013. This represented around 0.5% of all UK mobile subscribers. Take up of superfast broadband services has doubled since June 2012, increasing from 1.9 million in Q2 2012 to 3.8 million in Q1 2013
Source: Ofcom: The Communications Market 2013
“Whoever controls the media, controls the mind” Jim Morrison
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