The International Communications Market Report
Source: data.gov.uk (2019-08-28)

This annual report provides comparative international data on the communications sector. The aim of the report is to benchmark the UK communications sector against a range of comparator countries in order to assess how the UK is performing in an international context. The report compares the availability, take-up and use of services in the UK and 17 comparator countries - France, Germany, Italy, the US, Japan, Australia, Spain, the Netherlands, Sweden, Poland, Singapore, South Korea, Brazil, Russia, India, China and Nigeria, although we focus on a smaller subset of comparator countries for some of our analysis.
This report is intended to be used in a number of ways: to benchmark the UK’s communications sector, to learn from market and regulatory developments in other countries, and to provide the context for Ofcom’s regulatory initiatives. It also contributes to the richness of the information we draw upon, better enabling us to understand how our actions and priorities can influence outcomes for citizens and consumers, and for communications markets generally.

The sectors covered include television and radio broadcasting; internet on-demand content; telecommunications and (since 2012) the postal market.

The final edition of the ICMR was in 2017.

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Published: 2 August 2018

Download the data that underpins Ofcom's Communications Market Report (CMR) 2018.

CMR 2018 interactive report data: market in context (CSV, 1.3 MB) (/siteassets/resources/documents/research-and-data/multi-sector/cmr/cmr2018/cmr-2018-interactive-report-data-market-in-context.csv?v=193176)

CMR 2018 interactive report data: TV and AV (CSV, 499.8 KB) (/siteassets/resources/documents/research-and-data/multi-sector/cmr/cmr2018/cmr-2018-interactive-report-data-tv-and-av.csv?v=193180)

CMR 2018 interactive report data: radio and audio (CSV, 122.7 KB) (/siteassets/resources/documents/research-and-data/multi-sector/cmr/cmr2018/cmr-2018-interactive-report-data-radio-and-audio.csv?v=193178)

CMR 2018 interactive report data: telecoms (CSV, 838.5 KB) (/siteassets/resources/documents/research-and-data/multi-sector/cmr/cmr2018/cmr-2018-interactive-report-data-telecoms.csv?v=193179)

CMR 2018 interactive report data: internet and online (CSV, 351.6 KB) (/siteassets/resources/documents/research-and-data/multi-sector/cmr/cmr2018/cmr-2018-interactive-report-data-internet-and-online.csv?v=193175)

CMR 2018 interactive report data: post (CSV, 163.9 KB) (/siteassets/resources/documents/research-and-data/multi-sector/cmr/cmr2018/cmr-2018-interactive-report-data-post.csv?v=193177)

CMR 2018 interactive report data: post questions (PDF, 242.6 KB) (/siteassets/resources/documents/research-and-data/multi-sector/cmr/cmr2018/cmr-2018-interactive-report-data---post-questions?v=324416)

CMR 2018 narrative report data (CSV, 71.2 KB) (/siteassets/resources/documents/research-and-data/multi-sector/cmr/cmr2018/cmr-2018-narrative-report-data.csv?v=193172)

CMR 2018 "Always On" data (CSV, 923.6 KB) (/siteassets/resources/documents/research-and-data/multi-sector/cmr/cmr2018/cmr-2018-research-data.csv?v=193173)

Postal volumes and revenues 2017 (CSV, 2.0 KB) (/siteassets/resources/documents/research-and-data/multi-sector/cmr/cmr2018/postal-volumes-and-revenues-2017.csv?v=193171)

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