People over 50 years old were responsible for the majority of the increase in thenumbers of Britons using the Internet over the last year, a report by UKOM revealed.
The size of the UK Internet audience grew by five percent from 36.9 million people in May 2009 to 38.8 million people in May 2010.
Of these 1.9 million new Britons using the Internet, 1.0 million (53
percent) were at least 50 years old.
Men over 50 were responsible for most of this growth, accounting for 722,000 (38 percent) new British Internet users followed by women over 50 who accounted for 284,000 (15 percent) new users.
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