Strive Notes

OFCOM, the UK telecoms regulator has released its fifth annual communications market report, which shows people in the UK are spending more time than ever using a variety of communications and media services.

On average, Britons spend a total of seven hours and nine minutes per day surfing the net, using mobile phones, talking on landline telephones, watching TV and listening to the radio, up from an average of just six minutes back in 2002.

Internet and mobile phones have seen the biggest usage increases: time spent on PCs and laptops grew fourfold between 2002 and 2007 – from six minutes to 24 minutes per person per day – while time spent talking and texting on mobiles doubled over the same period, from five minutes to 10 minutes per day.

Click here to read the rest of this Tech Talk column about what these statistics mean for businesses.