The number of people using their mobiles to go online was also higher in the UK with nearly half (46 per cent) of UK internet users using their phones to go online in October 2011.  This was higher than in all the other countries surveyed.

UK consumers were also more likely to play games on their phone (34 per cent compared with 16 per cent in France).

A quarter (25 per cent) of UK mobile users accessed news content on their mobiles, significantly higher than in other European countries.  This could be partly due to higher smartphone take-up and UK newspaper websites having mobile specific websites.

They were less likely, however, to use the internet to make phone calls than in other countries. Just under a fifth (19 per cent) of UK broadband subscribers used services such as Skype to make internet phone calls, compared with 28 per cent in Italy and 26 per cent in France.

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