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To: MikeM54321 who wrote (9818)	12/19/2000 5:21:28 PM
From: Mkilloran	Read Replies (1) of 12823

MikeM54321...""I'm not sure why you correlate Digital TV with iTV"" ---------------- Read below article 6% of 20 million access the internet using digital TV in the UK.....(that's using settop boxes with regular TV sets .. expensive HDTV Digital tv sets not required). That's more than a pilot / test. Many interactive TV functions are already up and running in the UK. Look for the USA to follow their lead in 2001. ------------------------------ Third of UK households online Nearly one third of UK households can now access the web from home - a threefold increase on the same figure two years ago, reports ITN's new media correspondent Fergus Sheppard. The latest Government snapshot of Internet use from the Office of National Statistics suggests the web is becoming an increasingly common part of everyday life. Nearly half of all adults - 20 million people - have accessed the Net at some point, the vast majority within the last month, the ONS study says. For the first time,** digital TV and Internet-ready mobile phones are emerging as a way of logging on. The ONS report found six per cent of adults had accessed the Internet using digital TV in October, compared to just one per cent in July.** Those figures were reflected among mobile phone customers. In October, five per cent of adults said they had accessed the Net using a mobile, compared to one per cent in July. The most explosive Net use is seen among the 16 t6 to 24-year-old bracket, where more than 80 per cent of people are regularly logging on. While the majority of Net users emerge as aged 25 to 54, there is also growth in the so-called ''silver surfer'' market - with 14 per cent of those aged over 65 saying they use the Internet. Most people - nearly three quarters - log on from home, while just over a third use the workplace for Net access. While shopping online may be on the increase, the ONS survey suggests most people use the web for electronic shopping - researching goods or services they then might buy in the high street. The single most popular use of the Internet is e-mail (73 per cent) followed by finding information about goods and services (66 per cent) and general surfing (64 per cent). For those adults (55 per cent) who said they had never use the Internet, nearly a third quoted 'lack of interest' for not going online, with no perceived need being cited by 22 per cent of adults.

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