Internet in the United Kingdom
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The United Kingdom has been involved with the Internet throughout its origins and development. The telecommunications infrastructure in the United Kingdom provides Internet access to homes and businesses mainly through fibre, cable, mobile and fixed wireless networks, with the UK's 140-year-old copper network, maintained by Openreach, set to be withdrawn by December 2025.[1]
The share of households with Internet access in the United Kingdom grew from 9 percent in 1998 to 93 percent in 2019.[2] In 2019, virtually all adults aged 16 to 44 years in the UK were recent internet users (99%), compared with 47% of adults aged 75 years and over; in aggregate, the third-highest in Europe.[3] Internet bandwidth per Internet user was the seventh highest in the world in 2016,[4] and average and peak internet connection speeds were top-quartile in 2017.[5] Internet use in the United Kingdom doubled in 2020.[6]
According to the Office of National Statistics and the Government of the United Kingdom's Culture, Media & Sport and Science, Innovation & Technology departments, the digital sector was worth more than £140 billion to the UK's economy per year, as of 2020.[7][8][9] Research by Adobe suggested the UK spent £110.6 billion online in 2022.[10]
The Internet top-level domain name specific to the UK is .uk, which is operated by Nominet. Four additional domains were introduced by ICANN for locations within the UK in 2014: .cymru and .wales for Wales,[11] .scot for Scotland,[12] and .london for London.[13]