[LINK] ACCC: Broadband Take-Up Catch-Up

[Roger Clarke]

Nearly 2.2 million broadband services connected: ACCC
http://www.accc.gov.au/content/index.phtml/itemId/708512/fromItemId/2332

The take up of broadband services has reached nearly 2.2 million, 
according to the latest Australian Competition and Consumer 
Commission Snapshot of Broadband Deployment issued today.

"The report shows that as at the end of June 2005, there were 
2,183,300 broadband services connected across Australia", ACCC 
Commissioner, Mr Ed Willett, said.

"As with the results of the previous quarter, this represents an 
increase of over 1 million customers, or 108 per cent, over the 
preceding 12-month period".

Total quarterly growth in broadband was 18.7 per cent for the June 
2005 quarter. This is broadly in line with the March 2005 growth 
(18.8 per cent).

"The take up of ADSL services continues to be significant, with more 
than 1.5 million customers connected to ADSL services in the June 
2005 quarter".

[Paul Budde commented in the AFR that we'd been 4 years behind, but 
that the [enforced] broadband price cuts of March 2004 have had the 
result that we might catch back up to our OECD peers in two years's 
time.  But I suspect we're still way behind leading countries in MB 
download per person]

Quarterly snapshots at:
http://www.accc.gov.au/content/index.phtml/itemId/693170

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