In the UK, the Net rulz
p2pnet.net News:- UK broadband users may on average spend what amounts to almost two months a year online, but some 40% of them are paying over the odds for the privilege.
The solution? Shop around, says a spokesman for Uswitch, quoted by The Inquirer.
Meanwhile, the average web-enabled Brit, “spends 23 hours a week in cyberspace with time online split between an increasingly diverse range of activities,” says The Register.
Net pollsters YouGov suggest the Net is replacing TV as Britain’s preferred way of accessing content, says the story, going on, “According to communications watchdog Ofcom, people spend an average of 19 hours a week watching television, some four hours less than on the net,” emphasizing, “the challenges facing traditional media outlets and communications companies,” says the story.
The music and movie cartels are, “already struggling to fit their businesses around the way the web works,” and the survey, “suggests similar trouble ahead for television and telephone companies”.
The YouGov poll was commissioned by price comparison site uSwitch.com, and asked almost 15,000 people about their internet habits,” it adds.
However, “Uswitch just happens to be in the business of getting people to switch suppliers of utilities,” The Inquirer observes dryly.
Also See:
The Inquirer – Brit web-heads wibble away 50 days per year, August 8, 2006
The Register – Broadband makes e-potatoes of us all, August 8, 2006
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