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Other media activities


Fifty-six per cent of all UK adults claim to have ‘media stacked’ while watching television – engaged in activities on other devices not related to what they were watching at the time. Source: Ofcom: The Communications Market 2013


Browsed the internet


Had a phone/voice/video call (via landline/mobile phone/internet eg, Skype/facetime)


Used social network sites (eg, Facebook, Twitter) Sent or received text or instant message (eg, via WhatsApp,


BBM, Skype Messenger, Facebook) Sent or read emails


Virgin media


Listened to music/radio Online shopping


Watched other audio-visual content on a different device (eg, catch-up TV, video on demand, short videos)


Read e-books Other 0 BT Internet market share


Over a million new fixed broadband connections were added in 2012. The total number of fixed broadband connections continued to grow in 2012, increasing by 5.4% year on year to 21.7 million


Others


Others 13%


TalkTalk


TalkTalk 17%


Sky Sky 19%


Virgin Media 21%


BT BT38% Virgin Media BT 30%


Fixed line call volumes market share The cost of a basket of residential fixed voice services increased in 2012. The price of a basket of residential fixed telephony services (based on average use in 2012) increased by 0.5% in real terms in 2012. Virgin media


Virgin Media 12%


BT


Others 49%


Others 6%


4% 4%


5 10 15 20 25 30 35 40 16% 12% Others


“Communications tools don’t get socially interesting until they get technologically boring”Clay Shirky


24%


23% 22%


29% 36%


Source: Ofcom UK Communications 2013 Fast facts and The Communications Market 2013 Time spent on services Others


Average time spent using a fixed phone to make or receive calls fell by 29% to ten minutes per day Source: Ofcom: The Communications Market 2013


250 218 200 177 170 150 100 69 68 50 14 0 TV Radio Internet on PC/laptop Mobile phone 29


14 10 Fixed phone


241 TalkTalk


2007 2012


Minutes per day Sky Virgin M BT


AUTUMN 2013 SOCIETY NOW 21


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