Wireless broadband now 5% of total

Stuart Corner
Friday, 16 February 2007 08:06

Your IT - Home IT

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.

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.

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