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This overview brings out some of the main stories of the development of the communications industry over the past year:

• How people's usage of electronic communications is increasing in all areas - more radio listening, more phone calls made, more time spent on the internet and more television viewing.
• How in 2003 average household expenditure on mobile telecoms services (calls and text messaging) was greater than expenditure on fixed voice services (calls and access) for the first time.
• How radio is spearheading the move towards convergence by being available on a wide range of platforms as the range of communications devices proliferates.
• How the UK is becoming increasingly digital - with take-up of digital television, digital radio and broadband all increasing.
• How barriers to entry are decreasing allowing new players into the television, radio and telecoms industries.
• How television subscription revenues have overtaken television advertising for the first time as the principal source of funding and telecoms consumer revenues from mobile calls have overtaken those from fixed line calls.
• How some of the more traditional elements of public service broadcasting - such as arts, classical music and religion - are under increasing pressure to find slots in the schedule.

The remaining sections of this report, covering radio, telecommunications and television, provide more on each of those stories, together with a wealth of other facts and stories from across the communications industries.

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