UK: 4.8 million broadband users by year-end

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The UK will have almost five million broadband users by the end of the year, according to Continental Research.

With some 3.6 million broadband users in the UK at the moment, Continental Research's Spring 2004 Internet Report reckons that the UK's continued "strong interest" in broadband should result in 4.8 million connections by the end of the year.

This is based on research which found that three in ten of the UK's population of dial-up users "expressed some likelihood" that they would upgrade to a faster connection within the next 12 months.

Continental Research's Colin Shaddick said: "With 12.6 million homes now connected to the Internet there is a still a huge opportunity available for telecoms companies to persuade people to up-grade onto faster connections, especially as we are seeing a strong interest and demand by consumers to do so."