Tuesday 16 April 2013

NBN: Need for Action: Growth in Internet Download Volumes 2008-2012. [ABS product 8153.0]

File under "while you were sleeping"...

In the 5 years the Coalition has been opposing the NBN plan, Dec 2008, Fixed-line Broadband downloads have increased six-fold (600%).

That was around 5 years after Trujillo, CEO of Telstra, went to the Coalition Government telling them the PSTN business was in serious trouble and that to become a 21st Century Telco, an NBN was required.

Since 2005, traffic demand has increased at least 30-40 times. There is no indication in the figures that demand is slowing significantly. The CISCO VNI report suggests in 2016 with the advent of widespread use of Video-over-IP, that "you ain't seen nothing yet".

And yet the Coalition still refuses to a) give credence to this rapid, continuing increase in demand, b) the willingness of consumers to pay extra for increased utility provided by higher speeds and c) create a network that will support this exponential demand for the next 15-25 years.

This is the data from the ABS report on Internet Download Volumes for December 2012 or Download page.


The data is collected from ISP's with over 1,000 subscribers.

The Download Data Volume reported is for 3 months & needs to recalculated for single month usage.


Jun 2008 Dec 2008 Jun 2009 Dec 2009 Jun 2010 Dec 2010 Jun 2011 Dec 2011 Jun 2012 Dec 2012
Fixed Vol data download/mth TB 17,945.7 26,758.0 32,927.3 37,803.3 47,297.3 58,221.7 84,982.3 107,426.7 129,710.0 175,490.7
Fixed-line Broadband Svc '000 5,661 5,271 5,309 5,221 5,265 5,509 5,552 5,632 5,735 5,884
Fixed Avg Data Vol/mth GB 3.2 5.1 6.2 7.2 9.0 10.6 15.3 19.1 22.6 29.8


Table 1 Volume of data downloaded by access connection, for ISPs with more than 1,000 subscribers
Jun 2008 Dec 2008 Jun 2009 Dec 2009 Jun 2010 Dec 2010 Jun 2011 Dec 2011 Jun 2012 Dec 2012
Volume of data downloaded
Dial-up TB 1,597 1,079 466 294 280 183 106 96
Fixed line TB 113,410 141,892 174,665 254,947 322,280 389,130 526,472
Wireless TB 14,251 13,330 16,990 19,149 23,142 25,301 28,196
Total broadband TB 53,837 80,274 98,782 127,661 155,222 191,655 274,096 345,422 414,431 554,668
Total TB 55,434 81,352 99,249 127,954 155,503 191,839 274,202 345,518 414,537 554,771

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