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