Recent figures from the Office of National Statistics (ONS) now show that 90 per cent of UK fixed internet connections now use broadband.

Broadband has seen significant growth since the ONS started  collecting internet data in 2000, but it wasn't until 2005 that they overtook dialup as the most common way of connecting to the internet, and while broadband growth peaked last year, the market is still growing at over six per cent per year.

According to the report 47 per cent of connection speeds are now faster than 2Mbps, an increase from 43 per cent in March 2007, also the percentage of connections with a speed of less than 2Mbps decreased to 52.8 per cent in June 2007, down from 56.8 per cent in March 2007 and 62.1 per cent in December 2006.

The full report is on the ONS website (pdf).