{"id":548195,"date":"2006-03-09T11:15:59","date_gmt":"2006-03-09T11:15:59","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/localhost:8888\/wordpress\/technology\/548195-internet-overtakes-tv-in-britain.html"},"modified":"2006-03-09T11:15:59","modified_gmt":"2006-03-09T11:15:59","slug":"internet-overtakes-tv-in-britain","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/technology\/548195-internet-overtakes-tv-in-britain.html","title":{"rendered":"Internet overtakes TV in Britain"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><font size=\"2\">The report showed that British Internet users spend an average of 164 minutes online daily &#8211; the equivalent of 41 days a year &#8211; compared to 148 minutes watching television. <\/font><\/p>\n<p><font size=\"2\">Men spend on average 172 minutes on the web daily, and women 156 minutes. <\/font><\/p>\n<p><font size=\"2\">Londoners and Scots are the most dedicated net users, according to the survey, carried out by the TNS institute last month involving 1,030 adults aged 16 to 64. <\/font><\/p>\n<p><font size=\"2\">A major activity is online shopping, which accounts for an average annual spend of 446 pounds ($780) per user. <\/font><\/p>\n<p><font size=\"2\">The increasing use of computers at the workplace coupled with improved technology allowing broadband connections in private homes are the main reasons for the Internet&#8217;s domination, the report said. <\/font><\/p>\n<p><font size=\"2\">Ofcom, the British telecommunications regulator, last month noted a slight drop in television audiences since late 2003. <\/font><\/p>\n<p><font size=\"2\">There are now more than 10 million broadband connections in the UK, according to Ofcom. <\/font><\/p>\n<p><font size=\"2\">Broadband as a consumer product had grown from zero to 10 million in just over seven years. <\/font><\/p>\n<p><font size=\"2\"><em>Inet-Bridge ||<\/em>\u00a0 <\/font><a href=\"http:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/vb\/showthread.php?t=39035\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"><font size=\"2\">Discuss this article<\/font><\/a><font size=\"2\"> <\/font><\/p>\n<p><em><font size=\"2\"><\/font><\/em><\/p>\n<p><em \/><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The British now spend more time on the Internet than watching television, according to a survey published yesterday by Internet search engine Google.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":23,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_sma_x_autopost_status":"idle","_sma_x_autopost_error":"","_sma_x_post_id":"","_sma_facebook_post_id":"","_sma_instagram_post_id":"","_sma_threads_post_id":"","_sma_x_attempts":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[17],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-548195","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-technology"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/548195"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/23"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=548195"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/548195\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=548195"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=548195"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=548195"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}