[LINK] Broadband Around the World - Telstra claims one of the highest ARPU's in the World

[Tom Koltai]

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> [mailto:link-bounces at mailman1.anu.edu.au] On Behalf Of Tom Koltai
> Sent: Friday, 22 May 2009 11:45 AM
> To: 'Richard Chirgwin'; 'Link'
> Subject: Re: [LINK] Broadband Around the World - Telstra 
> claims one of the highest ARPU's in the World
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> So Richard, without fear of contradiction, I can safely say that if we
> assume that 75% of users are on Telstras lowest plan ($29.95) and 35%
> are on Telstras highest Plan $149.95 then the average according to the
> numbers I have which are:
> 
> Total internet. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .
> .$2,486,000,000
> Total IP & data access . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .
> $1,745,000,000
> from the TELSTRA PDF Annual Report 2008
> 
> A total of 	$4,231,000,000 (including mobile data plans).
> 
> I therefore get ARPU's of :
> 
> 65%	 $249.70 each subscriber.
> 35%	 $134.45 each subscriber.
> 
> Yep - definitely the highest in the world.


Oops, I re-read that last posting - and it needs some additional
clarification.

The Customer ARPU for all TELSTRA IP access in Australia ANNUALLY is
$768.00 per subscriber or $64.02 per month per sub.

If we take into consideration the actual megabytes up/down via PAIX AND
assume that represents 50% of all au IP traffic, then the monthly figure
(traffic based) =

65%  $20.81 x2 = $41.62 p/mth
35%  $11.20 x2 = $22.41 p/mth

So that is close to your figure.

However, the $64.02 per month per sub is the real revenue - i.e.:
Subscribers are charged for a volume of traffic - whether or not they
use it.

In other words - Subscribers under utilise their Telstra IP services by
66%.

Tom









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