Telstra has revealed the addition of almost one million new mobile services in the six months to December 2011, but Sensis revenues plummeted 24 percent in 12 months.
The latest edition of the Internet Industry Association/Spectrum Value Partners' survey of Australian broadband offerings shows average download quotas rising significantly, but plan prices relatively unchanged.
The survey found that, since Q1 2007, the average data quota in stand-alone plans has risen from 6.1Gbytes per month to 8.5Gbytes in Q1 2008, and the average cost of data, across all the plans surveyed and assuming the quota is full used, has fallen from $80 in Q1 2007 to $50 in Q1 2008.
Despite the lack of movement in package prices over the past 18 months, IIA and Spectrum say they expect to see decreases in the cost of broadband services across all access speeds and usage levels, and increases in download caps as operators gradually move to unlimited downloads.
The purpose of the quarterly index is to track progress towards the IIA's national targets for broadband in Australia for 2010, published in July 2006. The IIA's aim was "to develop a set of aspirational targets for both fixed and mobile broadband in order to provoke national discussion on how to achieve adequate broadband provision in Australia."
The targets were based on: comparisons of broadband availability in other countries; the current status of broadband provision in Australia; the projected level of future demand for bandwidth and the range of technologies likely to be deployed in the next four years.
The targets were for 80 percent of Australians to have access to 10Mbps downstream services and 1Mbps upstream services by 2010 and for 67 percent to have access to 24Mbps downstream services by 2010.
This edition of the survey says: "Overall availability of ADSL2+ is estimated to have increased to 82 percent, which is a jump of 25 percent compared to last quarter. However, due to the distance of customers to exchanges and the quality of the copper lines, the speed of their connection is degraded compared to the theoretical maximum of ADSL2+. As a result, the estimated availability of those with ADSL2+ achieving 8+ Mbps is only 41 percent based on individual technical research completed by ISPs."
David Bass
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