Internet service provider iiNet is on track to boost its market share of fixed broadband customers by installing its network infrastructure into eight new regional communities.
Australian internet users now consume twice as much data than they did a year ago, but figures by Australian Bureau of Statistics reveal there are still over 200,000 businesses and government agencies on a dial-up connection.
Western Australian internet service provider iiNet took an extra 47,500 broadband customers over the past year, and also added over 67,000 naked DSL subscribers.
Telstra has signalled weaker earnings growth in the 2009/10 financial year as it continues to face the impact of a softer economy on customer spending, after posting a 10.3 per cent rise in annual profit.
Optus today attributed growth in customer numbers and profits over the first three months of 2009 to iPhone sales and the Federal Government's two stimulus packages.
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Loosening the regulatory controls on Telstra might actually make it easier to attract customers away from its copper network and onto the new and shiny National Broadband Network.
Australia's third-largest telecommunications company, AAPT, has been left at the altar so many times that there is understandable scepticism that it will tie the knot in 2009.
If providers don't pitch in against the threat, customers might defect -- and the health of the Net itself could suffer.
Is Australia leading or lagging in the broadband stakes? Well, it depends on who you ask.
While claiming a record-setting theoretical maximum speed of 21Mbps, the Telstra Turbo 21 mobile broadband modem will most likely deliver download speeds ranging from 550Kbps to 8Mbps in practice.
Thousands of SMEs are expected to move to DSL broadband by the end of the year. ZDNet Australia examines the industry and shows how to navigate this competitive and confusing market.
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