The Communications Market Report - 2008 (August)

This is the fifth of Ofcom’s annual reports to focus on trends and developments in the UK’s communications market, with the aim of providing a context for decision-making by Ofcom, as well as by commercial and public service organisations.

This report begins by examining the UK telecoms industry development, and as per the data, the size of the UK telecoms industry, in terms of revenues, connections and usage, has continued to increase, despite high mobile penetration and a decreasing number of fixed lines.

A section on the telecoms industry then looks at major market trends from an operator viewpoint, identifying the drivers of an overall 4% growth in service revenues in 2007 and examining how the industry structure is changing - through trends such as the growth of the mobile sector, the increasing take-up of broadband and the continued growth in services based on local-loop unbundling.

This is followed by a section that examines trends from a user perspective. We use consumer research data to look at take-up of, and satisfaction with, different communications services, and include analyses of multiple-SIM use, and children’s use of mobile phones and the internet.

For further information regarding Telecoms, download the full document here (The Communications Market 2008 - 2; Telecoms - Page 291)