The Office of National Statistics (ONS) has issued its latest quarterly Internet access report to the end of March 2008. Broadband now accounts for 91.6% of all Internet connections, up from 90% in December 2007, 88.3% in September 2007, 86.1% in June 2007 and 83.6% in March 2007.

New Internet connections have also been going up, albeit at a drastically reduced pace of 0.3% during Q1-2008, which compares with 1.4% for Q4-2007. This marks the slowest single quarterly growth since Q2-2005, when an increase of just 0.1% was recorded. Perhaps further sign that the market is truly beginning to stagnate.


Meanwhile Dialup connections have continued their decline as users migrate over to broadband, accounting for 8.4% of all connections, down from 10% in Q4-2007 (quarterly decrease of 15%).

The report also keeps track of average "ADVERTISED" broadband speeds, which do not reflect the true performance received by customers:


It's noted that some of the previous quarter’s broadband and dialup statistics have had to be adjusted due to misreporting and late responses by some ISPs.