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24 Million Internet Devices Connect to Virgin Media on Christmas Day
Thursday, Dec 31st, 2015 (10:21 am) - Score 1,058
Cable operator Virgin Media reports that the average household in the United Kingdom had five different Internet-enabled gadgets connected to their broadband network on Christmas day, which peaked at 10pm and the majority of devices were identified as being Smartphones connected via WiFi.
By comparison the cable operator notes that, in February 2015, some 60% of Virgin Media’s customers had at least three devices connected to their home broadband and that was up from 37% in 2014. On top of that it’s stated that data usage on the Virgin Media’s network is growing at a rate of around 60% every year.
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| Active Broadband Connections | Active Devices | |
| Xmas Day 2015 (17:00 – 22:00) | 4,528,884 | 23,882,938 |
| Boxing Day 2015 (10:00 – 12:00) | 4,068,491 | 20,838,918 |
Tags: Statistics , Virgin Media
By Mark Jackson
Mark is a professional technology writer, IT consultant and computer engineer from Dorset (England), he also founded ISPreview in 1999 and enjoys analysing the latest telecoms and broadband developments. Find me on X (Twitter), Mastodon, Facebook, BlueSky, Threads.net and Linkedin.
Mark is a professional technology writer, IT consultant and computer engineer from Dorset (England), he also founded ISPreview in 1999 and enjoys analysing the latest telecoms and broadband developments. Find me on X (Twitter), Mastodon, Facebook, BlueSky, Threads.net and Linkedin.
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