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by Stuart Corner   
Friday, 16 February 2007
The number of wireless broadband subscribers grew nearly 400% to 186,000 in the 18 months to  September according to figures released by the Australian Bureau of Statistics (ABS). The now account for five percent of the total.

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As at September 2006, Australia had a total of 6.7 million active Internet subscribers - over half a million more than in March 2005, according to the ABS. Just under 60% of these subscribers had broadband connections, compared with 30% at the end of March 2005.

There were 5.8 million household subscribers and 826,000 business and government subscribers  approximately 2.8 million subscribers used a dial-up connection  Digital Subscriber Line (DSL and ADSL) was used by almost three million broadband subscribers (77%).

The highest proportion of Internet subscribers were in New South Wales (33%), followed by Victoria (24%), Queensland (20%) and Western Australia (11%)  there were 467 Internet service providers operating in Australia at the end of September 2006, 32% fewer than in March 2005.

More details can be found on the ABS web site www.abs.gov.au.{moscomment}

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