TYPE OF ACCESS CONNECTION
There were14.7million internet subscribers in Australia at the end of June 2018. This is an increase of3.6% from the end of December 2017.
Fibre connections grew by 22.4% in the six months between December 2017 and June 2018. Fibre growth for the year to June 2018 was 69.8%, reaching 3.6 million subscribers.
VOLUME OF DATA DOWNLOADED
The total volume of data downloaded in the three months ended 30 June 2018 was3.8 million Terabytes (or 3.8 Exabytes).
This is a 7.0% increase in data downloads when compared with the three months ended 31 December 2017 and a 28.1% increase compared with the three months ended June 2017.
Data downloaded via fixed line broadband (3.7 million Terabytes) accounted for 96.8.% of all internet downloads in the three months ended 30 June 2018.
MOBILE HANDSET SUBSCRIBERS
As at 30 June 2018, there were approximately 27.0 million mobile handset subscribers in Australia. This is an increase of 1.1% since December 2017.
The volume of data downloaded via mobile handsets for the three months ended 30 June 2018 was 246,765 Terabytes. This was a 21.5% increase in data downloads via mobile handsets when compared with the three months ended 30 December 2017 and a 40.9% increase in downloads compared to the three months ended 30 June 2017.
