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8153.0 - Internet Activity, Australia, Dec 2011 Quality Declaration 
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TYPE OF ACCESS CONNECTION


TYPE OF ACCESS CONNECTION

Internet Service Providers (ISPs) were asked to report subscriber numbers by type of access connection as at 31 December 2011.

There were 11.6 million internet subscribers in Australia at the end of December 2011. This represents annual growth of 11.0% and an increase of 6.3% since the end of June 2011.

The phasing out of dial-up internet connections continued with 96% of internet connections being broadband.

Diagram: TYPE OF ACCESS CONNECTION

(a) For ISPs with more than 1,000 subscribers.

Mobile wireless internet connections continued to be the fastest growing internet technology in terms of actual subscriber numbers, increasing by 14.7% since June 2011, and was again the most prevalent internet technology in Australia.

Although Digital Subscriber Line (DSL) connections grew by 1.3% to 4.6 million in the six months ending December 2011, the percentage share of DSL continued to decline, accounting for 39% of access connections.

In December 2011, the number of satellite connections decreased by 6.0% compared to June 2011 to 100,000 subscribers. While fibre subscriber numbers were still relatively small (37,000), the number increased by 18.3% in the same period.

Internet subscribers by type of access connection(a), for ISPs with more than 1,000 subscribers
Dec 2010
Jun 2011
Dec 2011
'000
'000
'000
Access connections
Dial-up connections
707
569
473
Broadband
DSL
4 458
4 493
4 553
Cable
np
881
900
Fibre
24
31
37
Satellite
np
106
100
Fixed wireless
24
34
35
Mobile wireless
4 230
4 786
5 491
Other
np
7
8
All broadband connections
9 739
10 338
11 123
Total number of subscribers
10 446
10 906
11 596
np not available for publication but included in totals where applicable, unless otherwise indicated
(a) Dial-up and broadband figures reported by type of access connection, may not equal figures collected by advertised download speeds, due to some broadband connections being reported as less than 256kbps.



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