Mobile broadband users reach 7.3m

Recent research shows that mobile broadband users have grown to 7.3 million, an increase of twenty five per cent, but at the same time fixed line broadband has increased by just three per cent, although the two services are hardly comparable at the moment.

Fixed line broadband users are already in excess of thirty five million and although there has been a only a small increase in users, fixed line broadband is still the preferred way of connecting to the internet for most UK users.

However, it is the take up rate for mobile broadband that has astonished industry experts; around a year ago, there was little or no support for it, now it is difficult to avoid the huge advertising campaigns that providers are mounting.

The largest group of people likely to be using mobile broadband are in the fifteen to twenty five age group. They make up about twenty five per cent of all mobile broadband users.