smartphone users who use their phone to communicate at least weekly
Method of interview
Online survey
Supplementary notes
This question was phrased by the source as follows: "For each of the following ways of communicating via your mobile devices overall, please say whether you do them more, less or about the same as you did 12 months ago."
*Base: email (n=2,239); social network (n=1,854); instant messaging (n=1,737); video calls (489); voice calls using the Internet (VoIP) (n=408)
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Growth of communication services usage in the UK from 2015-2016, by activity
This statistic displays year-on-year growth of communication services data usage in the United Kingdom (UK) from 2015 to 2016, broken down by activities. A total of ** percent of respondents were using more data on instant messaging than they were in 2015.
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