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Between September 2001 and September 2002 there was a 12.4% increase in the number of subscriptions to internet according to results announced today from an Office of National Statistics survey of ISPs, with always-on connections continuing to increase their share of the total.

The year-on-year growth to September 2002 was 5.9 per cent for dial-up connections, with an increase of 0.4 per cent from August to September 2002. The year-on-year growth was 326% per cent for permanent connections, with an increase of 8.9% from August to September 2002.

Dial-up connections continued to dominate the overall number of subscriptions, but with permanent connections continuing to increase their share.

In September 2002, the percentage of subscriptions using each access plan were: Free Access (28%), Unmetered Access (36%), Billing (19%), Mixed access (5%), Always-on (4%) and Other (8%).

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