THERE are now almost 6 million active internet subscribers in Australia, with more than half of them using broadband services.
Broadband internet subscriber numbers grew by 1.4 million in 15 months, according to data released earlier today by the Australian Bureau of Statistics (ABS).
At the end of the June quarter there were almost 5.1 million household subscribers and 867,000 government and business internet subscribers.
Non-dial up subscribers increased from almost 1.7 million at the end of March 2005 to over 3.1 million at the end of June this year, fifteen months later.
They now make up 53 per cent of total internet subscribers, compared with 31 per cent at the end of March 2005.
The ABS data shows 36,230 million megabytes of data was downloaded by subscribers during the three months up to 30 June 2006.
Three quarters of broadband services were connected using DSL technology.
