In July 2022, the average mobile internet download speed in Australia was 161.61 Mbps. Mobile internet outperformed fixed broadband in terms of download speeds, however, fixed broadband performed slightly better in upload speeds.

This is an Australian extract of Speedtest Open data available at Amazon WS (link below - opendata.aws).AWS data licence is "CC BY-NC-SA 4.0", so use of this data must be:- non-commercial (NC)- reuse must be share-alike (SA)(add same licence).This restricts the standard CC-BY Figshare licence.A world speedtest open data was dowloaded (>400Mb, 7M lines of data). An extract of Australia's location (lat, long) revealed 88,000 lines of data (attached as csv).A Jupyter notebook of extract process is attached.A link to Twitter thread of outputs provided.A link to Data tutorial provided (GitHub), including Jupyter Notebook to analyse World Speedtest data, selecting one US State.Data Shows: (Q2)- 3.1M speedtests- 762,000 devices- 88,000 grid locations (600m * 600m), summarised as a point- average speed 33.7Mbps (down), 12.4M (up)- Max speed 724Mbps- data is for 600m * 600m grids, showing average speed up/down, number of tests, and number of users (IP). Added centroid, and now lat/long.See tweet of image of centroids also attached.Versions:v15/16. Add Hist comparing Q1-21 vs Q2-20. Inc ipynb (incHistQ121, v.1.3-Q121) to calc.v14 Add AUS Speedtest Q1 2021 geojson.(79k lines avg d/l 45.4Mbps)v13 - Added three colour MELB map (less than 20Mbps, over 90Mbps, 20-90Mbps)v12 - Added AUS - Syd - Mel Line Chart Q320.v11 - Add line chart compare Q2, Q3, Q4 plus Melb - result virtually indistinguishable. Add line chart to compare Syd - Melb Q3. Also virtually indistinguishable. Add HIST compare Syd - Melb Q3. Add new Jupyter with graph calcs (nbn-AUS-v1.3). Some ERRATA document in Notebook. Issue with resorting table, and graphing only part of table. Not an issue if all lines of table graphed.v10 - Load AURIN sample pics. Speedtest data loaded to AURIN geo-analytic platform; requires edu.au login.v9 - Add comparative Q2, Q3, Q4 Hist pic.v8 - Added Q4 data geojson. Add Q3, Q4 Hist pic.v7 - Rename to include Q2, Q3 in Title.v6 - Add Q3 20 data. Rename geojson AUS data as Q2. Add comparative Histogram. Calc in International.ipynb.v5 - add Jupyter Notebook inc Histograms. Hist is count of geo-locations avg download speed (unweighted by tests).v4 - added Melb choropleth (png 50Mpix) inc legend. (To do - add Melb.geojson). Posted Link to AURIN description of Speedtest data.v3 - Add super fast data (>100Mbps) less than 1% of data - 697 lines. Includes png of superfast.plot(). Link below to Google Maps version of superfast data points. Also Google map of first 100 data points - sample data. Geojson format for loading into GeoPandas, per Jupyter Notebook. New version of Jupyter Notebook, v.1.1.v2 - add centroids image.v1 - initial data load.** Future Work- combine Speedtest data with NBN Technology by location data (national map.gov.au); https://www.data.gov.au/dataset/national-broadband-network-connections-by-technology-type- combine Speedtest data with SEIFA data - socioeconomic categories - to discuss with AURIN.- Further international comparisons- discussed collaboration with Assoc Prof Tooran Alizadeh, USyd.

The Measuring Broadband Australia (MBA) program relies on households across Australia volunteering to receive a Whitebox that tests the performance of their fixed-line broadband services. Thousands of tests are run and these measurements are used to calculate average speeds achieved and other metrics for different volunteer groups, such as volunteers on the NBN fixed-line services and volunteers on NBN fixed wireless services. The summary data released includes test results for all Whiteboxes used in MBA Report 28 for download, upload, latency and outages metrics. The results are de-identified to protect the privacy of the volunteers and the integrity of the MBA program.

This data compares Australia's performance in broadband against the other 30 OECD nations (at Dec 2018). A graph ordered by count of subs over 100Mbps puts Australia in the bottom two (since we have no over 100Mbps at Dec 2018).A presentation titled; "Maximising the Value of the NBN; comparing our NBN to Australia's Top 10 Trading Partners and the OECD", attached for presentation 25 Feb 2020, Telsoc event (link added below at Telsoc.org; includes video of event). Event Title: NBN Futures Forum - Learning from International Experience (Description added). Melbourne.Version: 14: Paper published in Journal of Telecomms and Digital Economy; Vol 8, No. 2 (Jun 2020) - see DOI below (10.18080/jtde.v8n2.252)13; add slideshare link.12. Original OECD file found with AU speed breakdown - now loaded. Confirming speed analysis of AU.11. Loaded copy of OECD data file. File now contains only aggregate Australia data. No breakdown by speed available from OECD site. This casts some doubt on the AU breakdown, provided in file attached, and may be a revision of the stats or an Author error. (28.2.20)10.FINAL slides loaded (24.2.20)9. Added OECD as Author.8. Draft v3 of slides (18.2.20).7. Seminar 25/2/20 (link added); Slides Draft v1, v2 slides added (pdf).6. Added pdf of Submission (Sub_016_RF.pdf) to Inquiry into NBN, and link to published submission. (Appendix 1 links not working). A separate Appendix 1 with working links now attached.4/5. Uploaded cleaned up Graph, with better legible x-axis. Countries marked with * are Australia's Top 10 Trading Partners - exports, imports.3. (Jan 2020) - adds China, Singapore who are non-OECD, and Australia 2009 (Source ABS 8153.00).Add filter, to allow comparing - all OECD (plus China, Singapore), filter = 1 (top 10 AU trading Partners), filter = 2 (AU 2009, 2018, post build NBN). Added slower speed for AU 2009.China estimate of slower speeds, based on s-curve take-up of high speed, see CNNIC Report (linked below). Singapore data - source to add. A calc of weighted average puts Australia in the bottom 3 of 30 OECD countries, just ahead of Colombia and Mexico, behind Chile, Turkey and Austria.ERRATA;Noted OECD original file, now no longer contains a breakdown of AU speeds, casting doubt on dataset. 28.2.20, corrected in V12.Noted China User count error is slowest speed - to amend. Noted calc error in V2 of average speed. Corrected in V3.OECD data available at: OECD Broadband Portalhttps://oecd.org/sti/broadband/5.1-FixedBB-SpeedTiers-2018-06.xlsNB: OECD should be an author of this dataset, but Figshare currently doesn't allow OECD to be included as an author, since they are not a known author in the Figshare system. Please cite as Ferrers, R, and OECD (2019). Title etc...Counts are measured in subscriptions per hundred people.SPEEDS>1.5/2 Mbps (megabits per second)>10 Mbps>25/30 Mbps>100 MbpsThe categories seem to mean;1.5 - 10Mbps | 10-30Mbps | 30-100Mbps | >100Mbps. A graph aggregates to three categories; slow (Under 30mbps), medium, 30-100 mbps) and fast (>100 mbps)This data is a response to the NBN sponsored report from Alpha Beta suggesting Australia is 19 / 37 countries and ahead of Germany, France and China. NBN report at: https://nbn.tm/Speed-CheckBased on Dec 2018 #OECD DATA of internet speeds as reported by each of 30 countries - AU is at the bottom end of speeds, one of the few to report 0% over 100mbps eg France 5 subs/100 ppl over 100mbps; Germany 6; Spain 9, US 9; Canada 10. #nbnCalculation of weighted average speed of broadband users puts Australia 32 / 34 countries at 7mbps. Impacted by large number of under 25mbps services (27/33).NEWS (2.9.20): China reports 417M FTTP/O connections (93% of total fixed connections) at Dec 19, and 85% of fixed connections at 100Mbps or over. https://cnnic.com.cn/IDR/ReportDownloads/

In 2021, the average fixed-line internet download speed in Australia was around 80 megabits per second (Mbps). This was a significant increase from the previous year, largely due to the roll-out of the National Broadband Network (NBN).

As of December 2024, the cumulative number of premises that were ready to connect to the National Broadband Network (NBN) in Australia had reached 12.44 million properties. The NBN was first conceived in 2007 and has been in the making for over a decade with the project infrastructure expected to be completed by mid-2020. Australia’s largest infrastructure project At a total cost of 51 billion Australian dollars and boasting a fiber network spanning more than 90 percent of homes and business across Australia, the NBN is indeed Australia’s largest infrastructure project. By the end of the 2019 financial year just over half of all properties made ready to connect to the NBN had switched their service to the broadband network. The enormity of the NBN project is also accentuated by the size of the county; half of all broadband services are delivered in low population density regional areas and still satellite and wireless make up only a small proportion of the total connections. Increased speed, lower cost? This massive undertaking has not gone without criticism. The original NBN plan announced that the majority of connections would be fiber to the premises (FTTP), however when faced with concerns over cost blowouts and looming deadlines, the NBN was revised to include a mix of technologies. This change has been at the cost of internet speed, with only a quarter of homes lucky enough to have access to high speed FTTP connections. Overall Australia places 62nd in the world for internet speed with the majority of Australians having an average connection speed of around 45Mbps, although higher speed tiers of up to 100Mbps can be purchased at a premium. As for the cost of internet connections, since the roll out of the NBN there is some evidence that prices are dropping for NBN and non-NBN services alike.

In 2022, Australia's National Broadband Network (NBN) consisted of a mix of technologies, with 35.5 percent of connections achieved through Fiber to the Node (FTTN) connections. Around one percent of connections that cannot be connected by fiber cables are serviced through a long-term satellite.

A Multi Technology Mix (MTM)

The original NBN design proposed that the majority of connections would be supplied by Fiber to the Premises (FTTP). This design was later changed to include a greater multi technology mix, which would combine the existing copper cable network with fiber. The rationale behind this change was to reduce costs and speed up the installation process, but this came at the cost of reduced internet speed for some connections. Connections that rely on copper cables have a maximum speed of around ten times less than FTTP connections and even less for wireless connections. As a result, the average download speed for fixed broadband in Australia currently sits at around 85 Mbps.

A national broadband network

The NBN is an Australian government-owned wholesale broadband network and at a cost of 51 billion Australian dollars, it is the country’s largest-ever infrastructure project. In June 2021, over 12 million homes and businesses were deemed ready to connect to the NBN. Once complete, NBN Co. Limited will continue to administer and maintain the network while the retail sales of broadband internet will be handled by internet service providers.

The Measuring Broadband Australia (MBA) program relies on households across Australia volunteering to receive a Whitebox that tests the performance of their fixed-line broadband services. Thousands of tests are run and these measurements are used to calculate average speeds achieved and other metrics for different volunteer groups, such as volunteers on the NBN fixed-line services and volunteers on NBN fixed wireless services. The summary data released includes test results for all Whiteboxes used in MBA Report 13 for download, upload, latency and outages metrics. The results are de-identified to protect the privacy of the volunteers and the integrity of the MBA program.

The Measuring Broadband Australia (MBA) program relies on households across Australia volunteering to receive a Whitebox that tests the performance of their fixed-line broadband services. Thousands of tests are run and these measurements are used to calculate average speeds achieved and other metrics for different volunteer groups, such as volunteers on the NBN and volunteers still on ADSL. The summary data released includes test results for all Whiteboxes used in MBA Report 11 for download, upload latency and outages metrics. The results are de-identified to protect the privacy of the volunteers and the integrity of the MBA program.

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This data collates an excerpt from Speedtest Global Index, over time (2018 - 2020), for Australia's Top Ten Trading Partners by imports and exports. Download speeds are in Mbps. Figures are rounded to nearest 5Mbps, except for % growth, and smallest observations.Australia's Top 10 Trading Partners are sourced from:- Observatory of Economic Complexity (https://oec.world).A version of this data (2018 - 19) was published in the Journal of Telecommunications and the Digital Economy (JTDE link below), Figure 3 (Ferrers 2020) in 2020, and presented at a Telsoc NBN Future Forum on Learning from International Experiences. Data from paper is at Figshare (link below).File is provided in formats:- numbers with paper graph, and formulae- csv (for browsing)- png version of Figure 3 from JTDE paper.This dataset is intended to be updated annually. Speedtest provides monthly updates.NB: Switch to median speed per country from late 2021/2022.Versions:v9 - Add data to 2023, India passes AU, add Top 10 AU Partners graph 2017 - 23.v8 - Add data to 2022, China passes US in speed. Add China/US graph at 2017-2022.v7 - NZ is twice as fast as AU. Pic and data excerpt.v6 - updated Dec 2020 figures. add graph 2018-2020.v5 - added link to Whirlpool, querying Australia's recent 40% jump in download vs ACCC Sept 2020 report - link belowv4 - simplified titlev3 - include graph image from JTDE paper (Figure 3) 2018 - 19.v2 - Amended title to include yearsv1 - Initial Load

The population share with mobile internet access in Australia was forecast to continuously increase between 2024 and 2029 by in total 1.4 percentage points. The mobile internet penetration is estimated to amount to 95.06 percent in 2029. Notably, the population share with mobile internet access of was continuously increasing over the past years.The penetration rate refers to the share of the total population having access to the internet via a mobile broadband connection.The shown data are an excerpt of Statista's Key Market Indicators (KMI). The KMI are a collection of primary and secondary indicators on the macro-economic, demographic and technological environment in up to 150 countries and regions worldwide. All indicators are sourced from international and national statistical offices, trade associations and the trade press and they are processed to generate comparable data sets (see supplementary notes under details for more information).

The Telecommunications Services subdivision comprises companies that sell fixed-line, wireless and resold telecommunications services to consumers. Digitisation has accelerated over the past few years, meaning households, businesses and government markets have required faster and more convenient telco services. Users have increasingly relied on mobile phones to access various services, from communicating using mobile apps to accessing online entertainment, like video and sports streaming. A shift towards wireless services has also weakened fixed-line services’ revenue. Overall, revenue is expected to have dropped by an annualised 3.7% over the five years through 2024-25, to $34.7 billion. Despite surging data usage, telecommunications service providers’ revenue has diminished over the past five years. Household consumers have tightened spending on telecommunications services amid a cost-of-living crisis and inflationary pressures, cancelling duplicate services and consolidating communications. This has led revenue to dip by an estimated 2.5% in 2024-25. The investment required to deliver cutting-edge solutions like 5G networks and satellite data services to customers in wider areas, including rural and remote regions, has escalated purchase costs as telcos invested heavily in acquiring advanced equipment and spectrum licenses for 5G networks. Service providers have passed on inflated costs to consumers by raising prices for services, like mobile and wired connections, which has helped improve subdivision profitability. Data usage will continue to expand as new technologies like 5G networks satisfy consumers’ appetite for faster internet speeds and reliable networks to support their everyday online activities. The 3G network's shutdown will encourage consumers to update devices. Growth in Internet of Things (IoT) technologies and products, which consumers are increasingly adopting, will boost data usage, which is set to stimulate subdivision growth. More consumers are projected to connect several devices through the internet, from smartphones and wearables to smart home technologies. As such, subdivision revenue is forecast to climb at an annualised 1.2% through the end of 2029-30, to reach $36.7 billion.