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Our research allows us to compare mobile data over time and analyse trends to judge how UK mobile statistics have evolved in recent years. Between and , the number of minutes spent making phone calls in the UK decreased by 9. In , close to a third At the start of , there were This is likely because many people will have more than one connection registered to them i. From the turn of the millennium, UK mobile subscriber numbers steadily increased from just over 43 million to a peak of From the turn of the millennium, the number of UK mobile phone subscriptions has steadily increased from just over 43 million in to a peak of At the end of March , the number of active UK mobile subscriptions, excluding machine-to-machine M2M , was Over the same time period, the number of dedicated mobile broadband subscriptions also increased from 4.
When broken down by population, there were over 73 mobile phone subscriptions per UK inhabitants in , rising to a peak of By , this dropped to When choosing a mobile phone it is vital to consider how expensive the contract might be. Between August and August a significant number of people took out mobile phone contracts through Uswitch.
The location with the highest average cost per mobile phone user was Ilford. This equated to The area with the most new mobile phone users between August and August was Edinburgh. In terms of highest total mobile phone costs, London paid the most between and At the other end of the spectrum, mobile users in Haverhill are spending less on their contract price than anywhere else. Mobile users in Winchester had the second lowest average costs in our study. Mobile users in Coatbridge had the lowest average mobile phone bill in Scotland.
Residents here typically pay around 1. Of the UK areas with the lowest average costs for mobile phone contracts , half are outside of England. To find out which cities spend the most on mobile data, check out our mobile data calculator.
