Over one million more people have gone online at home over the past year, official government figures have shown.
The number of Britons now going online at home continues to rise, new official figures show.
According to the Office for National Statistics (ONS), total numbers of domestic internet connections - including dial-up and broadband - have increased by 1.2 million over the past year. This means that people are now going online in around two-thirds of homes.
Regionally, the ONS said that homes in the south east of England were statistically the most likely to have a connection. The north-east of England ranked lowest, however.
Education levels were also revealed to be a factor in how likely it was for a Briton to own an internet connection. For example, 93 percent of adults aged under 70 were found to be going online - if they were educated to degree level or above.
This figure went down to just 56 percent among those with no formal qualifications. Around seven million over-65s were also revealed by the ONS never to have gone online.
Speaking to the BBC, David Sinclair at Help the Aged said that this last statistic should cause concern among ministers. "Absolutely no progress has been made in getting older people online and the spotlight is now on Government and the industry to get switched on," he commented.
"Exclusion from modern society is increasingly less about being able to get to the library and more about being able to access the rivers of information flowing in and out of British homes each day."
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