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| Australia: 0% growth in 2009 |
| Saturday, 03 April 2010 05:39 |
 Australia began 2009 with 4,176,000 DSL subscribers and ended with 4,193,000. The net gain of 17,000 is 0.4%, which rounds to 0%. Cable and fibre did little better, going from 913,000 to 935,000, up 2%. This is abysmal, especially because 369,000 canceled dial-up. Mobile wireless data more than doubled, from 1,368,000 to 2,838,000 with the growth increasing in the second half of the year. The Australian Bureau of Statistics defines "mobile wireless" as connected via a datacard, dongle or USB modem. http://bit.ly/bwkG8V. Petroc Wilton of Commsday suggests "the available market for DSL customers is flattening out quickly."
Wilson quotes Frost and Sullivan’s Phil Harpur belief that the trend would soon level off, with very limited cannibalisation from the fixed market. “I think the period of that very high growth has peaked and the growth rates are going to plateau out.... although you get some people who’ll totally do away with the fixed line, the problem you’ve got with wireless is that network can only take so much... and it can get overloaded.” Nathan Burley of Ovum calculates that from June to December the average monthly download went from 4.7GB to 5.8GB. per user.
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| Last Updated on Saturday, 03 April 2010 06:15 |