18 October 2005

The number of broadband connections has risen by almost five percent in the last year.

New figures are out for August and reveal broadband now makes up 55.7 per cent of all Internet connections.

Dial-up is rapidly fading out, making up only 44.3 per cent of all Internet connections, according the latest research from the Office of National Statistics.

Dial-up decreased by three per cent in just one month, between July and August this year.

The fate of dial up Internet connections was sealed in April this year when it stopped being the main form of Internet connection.

However, it had reached its peak three years earlier in February 2002.

The type of subscriptions taken up by customers has also been developing. In August 2005, the percentage of people using either free or billed dial-up had declined to 26 per cent from 34 per cent in the previous year.

Broadband subscriptions however rose to 56 per cent from the 35 per cent in the previous August.

These statistics are updated versions of previously released figures last month, following the provision of futher data from certain companies.

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