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Service availability is no longer a major impediment to the growth of broadband in the US but the majority of internet users are yet to be convinced of the merits of switching to high-speed services. A new survey from InStat/MDR has revealed that less than one in ten dial-up internet subscribers are unable to access… Continue reading Broadband Providers Must Change Strategy To Woo Subscribers, Says InStat/MDR

Almost half of all UK households now have access to the internet, according to the Q3 Expenditure and Food Survey from the Office of National Statistics (ONS). The number of online homes increased by approximately 300,000 in the three months to September 30 and now stands at 11.4 million, equivalent to 46% of all UK… Continue reading Home Internet Usage Still Growing

Over 95% of business broadband subscribers in the US connect to the internet via DSL or cable modems, according to a report from In-Stat/MDR. The company stated that in-ground broadband services are expected to retain their hold on the business community with total subscribers set to increase from 4.8 million last year to 15 million… Continue reading US Firms Turning To DSL And Cable Broadband

“The world wide web is tightening up,” according to a new report from eMarketer, which shows that more and more websites are now charging for access to content and more and more consumers are willing to pay for it. Across the board, from financial data to news to music, the availability of free content is… Continue reading Days Of Free Web Content May Be Numbered, Says eMarketer

Online shopping sales hit the £1 billion mark during November, as customers turned to the web in a bid to avoid the pre-Christmas high-street rush, according to the Interactive Media In Retail Group (IMRG). The retail monitoring group found that web spending was up 10% on the previous month when £860.5 million was exchanged online… Continue reading Internet Shopping Is A Billion Pound Industry, Says IMRG

NTL has announced that it now has half a million residential broadband internet customers. The cable company launched the new 1-Megabit service earlier this year, claiming that a combination of a powerful cable modem and NTL’s fibre optic network make the service twenty times faster than a normal dial-up internet connection. Commenting on the success… Continue reading NTL Reaches Half A Million Broadband Users

Internet usage has continued its inexorable rise in most countries and across the world, the web is increasingly regarded as an essential tool in everyday life. These are the findings of a new report by the global market research company Ipsos-Reid. For The Face of the Web 2002, citizens in twelve different countries were interviewed… Continue reading Internet Joins The Mainstream Media

With the proliferation of next generation networks and the wider availability of faster and smarter devices, it is estimated that the North American mobile internet access market will be worth $2.7 billion this year. Technology researchers at Frost and Sullivan believe that the mobile data industry will undergo rapid growth in the next few years… Continue reading Mobile Internet Revenues Set To Surge

The number of digital subscriber lines (DSL) worldwide increased by almost 20% to 30 million in the third quarter of 2002, according to a new report from Point Topic. Research carried out in the first half of the year found that there were 25 million DSL lines across the globe (see Global DSL Growth Hits… Continue reading Global DSL Lines Top 30 Million

Although dial-up connections are still in the majority, broadband users in the US surf the web more intensively and are responsible for almost half of all the pages viewed, according to new research. comScore Media Metrix found that 46 million of the country’s 142.7 million internet users in October 2002 connected to the web via… Continue reading Broadband Users More Active Online, Says comScore