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  Home computer users logging off
Updated 06 November 2001, 11.49
Fewer homes are connected to the internet
The number of home computers connected to the internet has fallen for the first time.

In the three months between May and August the number of homes linked up to the web fell from 40% to 39%.

It is the first time the number has dropped since people started to count how many houses were logging on to the internet.

Surfing by phone

That was in January 1999, when only 12% of UK homes had a computer that they used to surf the net.

Some people think that every home in Britain that wants the internet now has it, while others say more people are now using Wap phones or digital TVs to log on.

The figures are worked out by Oftel, a group set up by the government to look after the communications industry.

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