A
well-designed website will raise your company profile
and attract new sales. Ultimately you will have a
24-hour-shop with a worldwide display and low overheads.
"An
estimated 13.9 million households (57 %) in Great
Britain could access the Internet from home between
January and April 2006. This is an increase of 2.9
million households (26 %) since 2002.
Including
Northern Ireland, the number of households with Internet
access in the UK in 2006 was 14.3
million. The region with the highest percentage
of households with Internet access was the South East
with 66 %.
69
% of households with Internet access had a broadband
connection. Access was highest in London where 78
% of households with Internet access had a broadband
connection (49 % of all households in the London region).
In
June 2006, broadband connections formed 72.6 %
of all Internet connections."
Between
2001/02 and 2006 the proportion of adults in Great
Britain who had used the Internet in the last three
months increased by 1/4, from 48 % to 60%. Almost
six in ten (59 %) Internet users aged 16 and over
went online every day or almost every day
in 2006, while 4 per cent went online less than once
a month.
Sources:
www.statistics.gov.uk
National Statistics Omnibus Survey; Northern Ireland
Omnibus Survey; Survey of Internet Service Provider.
