2007 Australia - Broadband Market Statistics (tables only)

Last updated: 1 Aug 2007 Update History

Report Status: Archived

Report Pages: 33

Analyst: Stephen McNamara

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Summary
Table Of Contents

Publication Overview

This report provides 82 statistical tables covering the Broadband Market. Statistical tables include:-

Subscribers
Market segments
Market Shares
Industry Statistics
Revenues
Forecasts

Executive Summary

Despite the ‘Mexican Standoff’ between the government and Telstra on the issue of a regulatory holiday for new broadband infrastructure, broadband penetration is proceeding at high speed in Australia. By mid-2007 there were close to 4.5 million subscribers. In the residential market this means a broadband penetration of close to 64% in Internet households (46% of total households). In the business market, this figure is over 80%.

While the penetration of broadband in Australia is catching up with its trading partners it is still lagging behind in the quality of broadband provided by the operators, and in the price customers have to pay. The majority of customers are still on services that provide only 256Kb/s or 512Kb/s. Telstra, however, does make an 8Mb/s available, but this is not a guaranteed speed, only a best-effort service.

Telstra’s competitors are leading the market in the higher speed ADSL2+ services market. The regulator has finally been able to force better unbundled local loop and spectrum-sharing wholesale services into the market, and affordable true-broadband services are now available. Telstra is only making ADSL2+ available in those exchanges where its competitors have installed their own DSLAMs, so it is being a follower rather than a leader in new and innovative broadband services, a fact that is hampering a more rapid deployment of this superior infrastructure.

Broadband infrastructure is essential for the social and economic development of the country and both the current Government and the Opposition have broadband policies in place, aimed at ensuring that regional and other fringe areas will receive services that are equivalent to those available in the more economically viable metropolitan areas of the country.

However, before any further plans are developed the government will have to establish the right regulatory environment. It would be foolish to allow for the overbuilding of infrastructure; a far better option would be to ensure the sharing of infrastructure.

For this to happen, the government will need to act upon its operational separation legislation, which was passed in Parliament back in 2005. Only when this is sorted out can responsible investment decisions be made and responsible government funding be put in place. As we have seen in other countries, this will enable more companies to enter the facilities-based market (even in regional markets) in addition to entering the services market.

This report contains only tables (82) of statistics relating to broadband in Australia. For a detailed discussion and analysis of the broadband market, see the full report ‘2007 Australia - Broadband Market - Overview and Statistics’.


1.	AUSTRALIAN BROADBAND STATISTICS
1.1	International comparisons
1.2	Subscriber statistics
1.3	Broadband revenues
1.4	Broadband access technologies
1.4.1	ADSL
1.4.2	Cable modem
1.5	Internet
1.5.1	Internet subscribers
1.5.2	Internet access technologies
1.5.3	Internet access speeds
1.6	Business Market
1.7	Residential users
1.7.1	Internet usage by children
2.	MARKET FORECASTS – 2005 - 2015

Table 1 – Broadband access among Internet households – selected countries – 2001 - 2007
Table 2 – Average maximum broadband speeds – international benchmark
Table 3 – Number of countries with broadband speeds of more than 256Kb/s – 2002 - 2006
Table 4 – Total Australian broadband subscribers – 1996 - 2009
Table 5 – Number of Australian households and technology penetration – 2007
Table 6 – Broadband subscribers – total market by value – 2002 - 2008
Table 7 – Broadband subscribers – total market – annual growth – 2003 - 2008
Table 8 – Broadband subscribers – market share by provider – 2003 - 2008
Table 9 – Broadband revenues by major provider – 2000 - 2007
Table 10 – Broadband revenues by major provider – annual change – 2003 - 2007
Table 11 – Broadband revenue market share by major provider – 2003 - 2007
Table 12 – Why the average home will soon require 50Mb/s to the home
Table 13 - Broadband subscribers by technology - 2001 - 2006
Table 14 – Broadband DSL retail subscribers – 2002 - 2006
Table 15 – Current and planned competitive DSLAM roll outs*
Table 16 – Internet service providers with DSLAM infrastructure – 2006 - 2007
Table 17 – Number of ADSL and ADSL2+ enabled exchanges – June 2006
Table 18 – Number of infrastructure providers by ADSL-enabled exchanges – June 2006
Table 19 – ADSL2+ subscribers by provider – 2006 - 2007
Table 20 – Cable broadband subscribers per operator – 2001 - 2007
Table 21 – Internet subscribers per state – 2002 - 2007
Table 22 – Portion of Internet subscribers per state – 2002 - 2007
Table 23 – Dial-up and broadband subscriber overview – mid-2006
Table 24 – Dial-up and non-dial-up Internet subscribers – 2003 - 2006
Table 25 – Business, government and household Internet subscribers – 2005 - 2006
Table 26 – Internet subscribers by type by ISP size – 2005 - 2006
Table 27 – Proportion of Internet subscribers by type by ISP size – 2005 - 2006
Table 28 – Internet subscribers by type and download speeds – September 2006
Table 29 – Internet subscribers by access technology – September 2006
Table 30 – Internet subscribers – dial-up vs non-dial-up – 2004 – 2007
Table 31 – Internet households & business users – 1985; 1990; 1995 - 2006
Table 32 – Data downloaded by dial-up and non-dial up users – 2003 - 2006
Table 33 – Data downloaded by households, business and government – 2000 - 2006
Table 34 – Data downloaded by households, business & government – 2004 - 2007
Table 35 – Numbers of ISPs by size – September 2006 - March 2007
Table 36 – Internet subscribers by access technology – September 2006 - Mar 2007
Table 37 – Internet subscribers and ISPs by access technology – June 2006
Table 38 – Internet subscribers by download speed – Sep 2006 - Mar 2007
Table 39 – ISPs & business/government Internet subscribers by download speed – June 2006
Table 40 – Business broadband subscribers – 2002 - 2008; 2010
Table 41 – Business broadband ARPU & annual change – 2004 - 2006
Table 42 – Business market Internet revenue – 1997 - 2007
Table 43 – Percentage of business usage of technology – 1994; 1998; 2000 - 2005
Table 44 – Percentage computer and Internet use by employment size – 2003 - 2005
Table 45 – Percentage computer and Internet use by total income – 2003 - 2005
Table 46 – Percentage computer and Internet use by industry– 2003 - 2005
Table 47 – Percentage computer and Internet use by state – 2003 - 2005
Table 48 – Percentage computer and Internet use by total region – 2003 - 2005
Table 49 – Percentage purchasing over the Internet – 2001 - 2005
Table 50 – Main type of Internet connection – 2004 - 2005
Table 51 – Main type of broadband connection – 2004 - 2005
Table 52 – Barriers to broadband usage – 2004 - 2005
Table 53 – Proportion of businesses using broadband by country – 2005
Table 54 – Household Internet connection by type of access – 2005 - 2006
Table 55 – Personal use of the Internet by type of access – 2005 - 2006
Table 56 – Household Internet access by type of broadband access – 2005 - 2006
Table 57 – Number of Australian households and technology penetration – 2007
Table 58 – Households with access to a home computer by region – 1998 - 2006
Table 59 – Percentage use of the Internet according to location – 2005 - 2006
Table 60 – Percentage use of the Internet at home by purpose – 2005 - 2006
Table 61 – Percentage use of the Internet at home by main purpose – 2005 - 2006
Table 62 – Main reasons for not having access to the Internet at home – 2005 - 2006
Table 63 – Frequency of use of the Internet at home by gender and region – 2005 - 2006
Table 64 – Computerisation in the home – May 2006
Table 65 – Internet usage in the last 12 months – May 2006
Table 66 – Internet applications used in the past 12 months – May 2006
Table 67 – Banking channel preferred by CBA survey respondents – 2006
Table 68 – Children’s use of computers by site – 2005 - 2006
Table 69 – Children’s use of a computer at home by activities – 2005 - 2006
Table 70 – Children’s use of a computer at home by frequency – 2005 - 2006
Table 71 – Children’s use of the Internet by site – 2005 - 2006
Table 72 – Children’s use of the Internet at home by activities – 2005 - 2006
Table 73 – Children’s use of the Internet at home by type of Internet sites accessed – 2005 - 2006
Table 74 – Children’s use of the Internet at home by frequency – 2005 - 2006
Table 75 – Children’s use of the Internet by type of Internet access – 2005 - 2006
Table 76 – Broadband component of Internet households – 2005 - 2010; 2015
Table 77 – Revenue make-up scenario forecasting – 2010
Table 78 – Residential spend per household per annum – 2003; 2010; 2015
Table 79 – Overview total Telecoms/Internet market – 2015
Table 80 – Residential Broadband growth predictions – next ten years
Table 81 – Broadband revenues – 2005; 2010; 2015
Table 82 – Broadband market share by technology – 2005; 2010; 2015

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