A well-designed website will raise your company profile
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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.
