Ofcom Communications Market Rpt analyst briefing

Ofcom Communications Market Report 2016 analyst briefing

Ofcom has today published its annual Communications Market Report into the UK's TV, radio, broadband, telecoms and postal industries.

Ofcom will host a briefing for analysts on the morning of 4 August 2016, outlining major findings from the report.

Telecoms: Total UK telecoms revenues increased by 0.5% in 2015 to £37.5bn, growing for the first time in five years, mainly due to a £0.5bn increase in retail fixed revenue.

Television: Total UK TV industry revenues increased by 3% year on year in 2015, reaching £13.6bn. This was driven by increases in net advertising revenues (up 7%) and subscription revenues (up 3%).

Internet: Over 85% of households now have fixed broadband, and over 37% of those are superfast lines delivering broadband speeds of 30Mbit/s or above. There are now (end of 2015) 39.5m 4G subscriptions in the UK, 46% of mobile subscriptions, compared to just 28% (23.7m) at the end of 2014.

Radio: Total UK radio industry revenue was stable at £1.2bn in 2015.

Post: Revenue for addressed letter mail fell 2% during the year, to £4.2bn.

The full report can be accessed here: www.ofcom.org.uk/cmr

The briefing for analysts on the report's findings will take place between 10:00am and 11:30am BST - please RSVP to analyst.relations@ofcom.org.uk should you wish to attend.

The briefing will also be broadcast live on the Ofcom website. A link to the webcast and accompanying slides to the briefing will be available from our analyst relations webpage (http://media.ofcom.org.uk/analysts/presentations) from 9:55am BST.

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CONTACT

Rohit Goel

Ofcom

analyst.relations@ofcom.org.uk

(+44) (0)20 7981 3033