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.

(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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