8153.0 - Internet Activity, Australia, December 2014 Quality Declaration 
ARCHIVED ISSUE Released at 11:30 AM (CANBERRA TIME) 01/04/2015   
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MOBILE HANDSET SUBSCRIBERS


Mobile handset subscriber numbers

As at 31 December 2014, there were 21.0 million mobile handset subscribers in Australia, an increase of 2% from 20.6 million subscribers at the end of June 2014.

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

Dec 2013
Jun 2014
Dec 2014

Total mobile handset subscribers '000
20 281
20 567
21 032
Volume of data downloaded via mobile handset(a)(b)TB
27 627
38 734
52 745

(a) The data downloaded is reported for the three month period prior to the reference date.
(b) The volume of data downloaded by mobile handsets may only include revenue generating downloads, and not monthly data allowances, or downloads that don't contribute to data download allowances.



Mobile handset subscriber downloads

The volume of data downloaded via mobile handsets for the three months ended 31 December 2014 was 52,745 Terabytes, a 36% increase from the three months ended 30 June 2014. This represents 4% of total data downloaded.

For the 21.0 million mobile handset subscribers, this equates to 0.8 GB of data downloaded per subscriber per month.