Enabling a Digitally United Kingdom

The UK’s e-marketplace is one of the most diverse and
vibrant in the world. By March 2004, 53% of UK households
had digital television, up from 50% in the previous quarter.
53% of UK adults now have internet access at home, up
from 50% in November 2003; and 25% of these adults now
connect to the internet using broadband. By the end of April
2004, the UK had reached almost 4 million broadband users,
with over 40,000 new connections each week.
Significant business innovation and investment, combined
with public investment, has helped to put the UK firmly on
the road to becoming a digitally United Kingdom. Opportunities to get online are almost universally available:
96% of Britain’s population are aware of a place where they can readily access the internet, whether at home,
at work, through mobile technology, or at a public access point (including over 6,000 UK online centres). The
UK’s knowledge economy infrastructure now ranks alongside global leaders, with a recent independent study
placing the UK second worldwide in terms of e-readiness, just behind Denmark, but ahead of the United States
and Japan.
http://www.cabinetoffice.gov.uk/publications/reports/digital/digitalframe.pdf