Freedom Prepaid MasterCard – The Financial Benefits of Digital Inclusion
In recent research, released by the Government funded Digital Inclusion Task
Force, online usage is shown to have a positive economic effect.
In a quote from Martha Lane Fox (Champion...
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Freedom Prepaid MasterCard – The Financial Benefits of Digital Inclusion
In recent research, released by the Government funded Digital Inclusion Task
Force, online usage is shown to have a positive economic effect.
In a quote from Martha Lane Fox (Champion for Digital Inclusion):
“Off-line households, for instance, could be missing out on average savings
of £560 a year from shopping and paying bills online, and all in all the
economic benefit of getting everyone online in the UK are estimated to be
£22billion.
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Research by PricewaterhouseCoopers LLP (PwC) between 16th
September
and 9th
October 2009 shows the following financial savings that can be made
online:
• The consumer saving of £560 a year is an average across all digitally
excluded households: for the 20% of households on the lowest incomes, the
average saving is £300 a year.
• The consumer saving is equivalent to around £3 in every £100.
• The biggest consumer savings are estimated to come from purchases
of energy, insuran
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