UPDATE: What a massive report.  Some work… congratulations to the Ofcom team that created it!  I did notice, however, that the report was prepared before the dramatic fall of the pound.  I wonder how using today’s currency exchange rates would change some of the findings on comparative pricing…?

Released today by Ofcom: (click: here)

20|11|08

UK leading internationally as a digitally advanced nation

New Ofcom report shows:

• Bundling benefits UK consumers
• Traditional industry revenues under pressure
• The Irish spend most time on their mobiles
• The Poles spend the most time listening to the radio
• More women than men use the internet

UK consumers are embracing new digital TV services, such as High Definition TV and Digital Video Recorders, alongside many other leading economies across the world, new Ofcom research reveals.

These services give UK consumers a much greater choice of TV channels with sharper pictures and the ability to record, store, pause and fast-forward programmes.

Ofcom’s third International Communications Market Report into the £876 billion global  communications market also looks at take-up, availability and use of broadband, landlines and mobiles, TV and radio in 12 established industrial economies and in four fast growing economies: Brazil, India, Russia and China.

Covering 2007, the report finds that UK consumers are getting a good deal for their money when buying communications services compared with people in other countries.

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It would be interesting to see the cost of media and communications regulation in all of these countries!