The Government has offered Australia's three mobile operators, and vividwireless, renewal of their existing spectrum allocated on 15 year licences in the late 90s and early 2000s at set prices, while the Government expects to rake in $3 billion.
And the search giant fared even better internationally. While MicroHoo lost 0.8 of a percentage point, Google added 0.97 of a point as Baidu, AOL and the 'other' category all lost share.
There's no real comfort for Microsoft in Net Applications' latest market share report either. That shows a drop in Bing's global share from 3.52% to 3.39%, and in Yahoo!'s from 7.28% to 6.84%.
The only consolation is that these figures also show Google losing a little share, going from 83.33% in August to 83.13% in September.
So if Google, Bing and Yahoo! all lost share, the only remaining search engine of any size is China-focused Baidu, That one's back on the growth curve after Net Applications adjusted its numbers beginning in to allow for a significant amount of automated traffic.
(How significant? Baidu when from a reported 8.87% in July to 3.46% in September when the adjustment started.)
Baidu rose 0.92 percentage points to 4.38%.
StatCounter's figures are based on 4.6 billion search engine referring clicks to more than 3 million web sites. Net Applications' come from data associated with some 160 million visitors to an unspecified number of web sites.
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