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Communication fast facts 2010
- 89 per cent have or use a mobile phone.
- 92 per cent of UK homes have digital TV.
- 14 per cent live in a mobile-only household.
- A record 104 billion texts were sent in 2009. That works out as 1700 texts for every person in the UK.
- Time spent on fixed Internet has increased by over two-thirds since 2008.
- Adults now spend 14.2 hours per month on the web.
- 15 per cent of UK adults have mobile broad-band.
- Take-up of mobile broadband increased by eight per cent among 15 to 24s and by three per cent among 35 to 54s.
- Data volumes over mobile networks increased by 240 per cent in 2009.
- A record number of people listened to the radio – 46.5 million adults listened on a weekly basis by the first quarter of 2010.
We’re now sending four times as many texts per day as in 2004, spending almost a quarter of our Internet time on social networking sites and spending three hours and 45 minutes per day watching TV.
We’re also using several types of media at the...
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