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Internet Service Provider Survey; March 2005
Key findings from this Stats NZ survey include:
- For the six months ended 31 March 2005, there were 66 Internet service providers (ISPs) operating in NZ, with a total of about 1.24 million active subscribers.
- At 31 March 2005, the predominant connection technology was analog, with about 800,000 active subscribers.
- At 31 March 2005, the penetration of Internet subscriptions was 30 active subscribers per 100 inhabitants in NZ, while Australia had 29 active subscribers per 100 inhabitants. Both NZ and Australia had 20 analog active subscribers per 100 inhabitants. NZ had 11 non-analog active subscribers per 100 inhabitants, while Australia had nine.
- At 31 March 2005, the predominant download speed category was less than 64kbps, with about 800,000 active subscribers. There were also almost 430,000 active subscribers who used download speeds of 64kbps to 10mbps or greater.
- At 31 March 2005, about 90 percent of ISPs offered their subscribers a SPAM-filtering product as either a free or charged service.
- For the six months ended 31 March 2005, 73 percent of ISPs in NZ saw the strength of competition as the greatest barrier to the growth of their operations. Other common barriers to growth were identified as the regulatory environment relating to telecommunications (about 50 percent), the cost of international bandwidth (almost 46 percent), and delays in obtaining facilities from backbone suppliers (41 percent).
There is a companion "Hot Off The Press" release, which gives much more information on the survey. This can be found at on the Stats NZ website at: http://www2.stats.govt.nz/domino/external/pasfull/pasfull.nsf/web/Hot+Off+The+Press+
Internet+Service+Provider+Survey+March+2005?open
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