Almost 16.5 million households in the UK now have internet access, an increase of 1.2 million since 2007, the latest official figures show.The Office for National Statistics (ONS) said the new figure represented close to two-thirds of UK households.Homes in the South East are most likely to have internet access with those in north-east England least likely.But charities said that insufficient effort had been made to encourage older people to use the internet.
http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/business/7582081.stmA million British households ‘will never go online’
More than a million households are stubbornly resisting the internet revolution and have no intention of ever going online, new figures have shown.
A third of homes in Britain, around eight million, still do not have internet connection.The majority of those have not embraced the world wide web because they either do not understand how it works, “do not need it” or cannot afford a computer.However, the remainder told interviewers from the Office for National Statistics that they were actively shunning the internet.
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