Ofcom Release 2008 Report
Ofcom have published their Telecommunications Market Data Update for Q4 2008. Highlights of key trends include:
- Total UK fixed voice call and access revenues continued to fall, by 0.9% during Q4 2008 to £2.20bn, with BT’s share falling by 0.3 percentage points to 59.7%.
- Total fixed call volumes fell by 738 million minutes (2.1%) to 34.6 billion during the quarter, with a year-on-year fall of 3.4 billion minutes.
- At the end of 2008 there were 17.3 million residential and small business UK broadband connections, an increase of 2.1% on Q3 2008.
- Total call volumes across the four main mobile operators grew by 2% quarter-on-quarter, driven by a 3% growth in call volumes to UK numbers.
- Outgoing international call volumes ifrom mobiles increased by 6% compared to Q4 2007 (0.2%) while the number of calls made while roaming abroad increased by 10%.
- SMS and MMS volumes grew by 11% in Q4 2008, higher than any other quarter in 2008.
The full report can be found here.
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