According to the findings in a recently released report the average broadband user in Britain spend 30 hours of every week browsing the internet.

It was found in recent research that the average person in the UK spend around 30 hours every week and according to the report from uSwitch.com this is usually broken into 3 hours a day surfing for leisure purposes and 2 hours each day using the internet for work related purposes on a normal working day.

On weekends the average person was found to spend 3 hours per day online according to this survey that was carried out on 2690 adult British recipients.

uSwitch.com also found that an average of around 45 hours per week was being spent accessing the web by the average younger adult, between the age of 18 to 24.

The continual rise in the choice of services that are now being made available by broadband services providers for people to use has been attributed to the amount of time people are now spending online, according to the latest findings in the uSwitch.com report.

A communications expert at uSwitch.com, Jason Glynn advised “broadband is rapidly becoming a necessity – as important to our quality of life as gas or electricity.”

The lack of a standard broadband connection speed did, however, mean that not everyone has the same level of access to the internet he warned.

Glynn said “We are also seeing growing signs of a ‘digital divide’ and the risk of social exclusion for those who are unable or unwilling to go online. Some groups, such as the elderly, are in danger of being left behind – more work needs to be done to encourage greater take-up among these groups, who could otherwise be left disadvantaged.”

Source – Webuser