8153.0 - Internet Activity, Australia, June 2013 Quality Declaration 
ARCHIVED ISSUE Released at 11:30 AM (CANBERRA TIME) 08/10/2013   
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MOBILE HANDSET SUBSCRIBERS


MOBILE HANDSET SUBSCRIBERS

Mobile handset subscriber numbers

Internet Service Providers (ISPs) with more than 1,000 subscribers were asked to report the number of subscribers with internet access connections via a mobile handset, as at 30 June 2013.

Internet connections via a mobile handset, for ISPs with more than 1,000 subscribers

Jun 2012
Dec 2012
Jun 2013

Total mobile handset subscribers '000
16 192
17 391
19 645
Volume of data downloaded via mobile handset(a) TB
9 943
13 703
19 636

(a) Data downloaded is reported for the three month period prior to the reference date.


As at 30 June 2013 there were 19.6 million subscribers with internet access connections via a mobile handset in Australia, an increase of 13% from 17.4 million subscribers at the end of December 2012.


Mobile handset subscriber downloads

These ISPs were also asked to report, for the three months ended 30 June 2013, the volume of downloads from subscribers with internet access connections via a mobile handset.

Data reported by ISPs for the volume of data downloaded via mobile handsets may only include revenue generating downloads, and not monthly data allowances, or downloads that don't contribute to data download allowances.

The volume of data downloaded via mobile handsets for the three months ended 30 June 2013 was 19,636 Terabytes, a 43% increase from the three months ended 31 December 2012.

For the 19.6 million mobile handset subscribers, this equates to 0.3 GB of data downloaded per subscriber per month.




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