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47% of Aus Internet Connections are Wireless


Posted on April 2nd, by Emily Rogers (Freeman) in Blog, Featured. No Comments

Mobile wireless broadband connections (excluding mobile handsets) accounted for 47% of all internet connections as at 31 December 2011, according to the Australian Bureau of Statistics.

Overall, the number of internet subscribers in Australia climbed 6.3% to 11.6 million in the six months to December 2011, up from 10.9 million in June 2011.

There were 5.5 million mobile wireless broadband connections (excluding mobile handsets), an increase of 14.7% compared with June 2011. Over the same time period, DSL connections increased by 1.3%, to 4.6 million.

At the end of December 2011, there were 11 million mobile handset internet subscribers in Australia, an increase of 13.6% from June 2011.

Source: Australian Bureau of Statistics

http://www.abs.gov.au/ausstats/[email protected]/mf/8153.0/

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