Vocus and
Vocus grew by over 33,000 services in the quarter, taking its market share to 7.9 per cent. There was similar growth for
"The sustained growth of smaller broadband providers shows that there is continued demand from consumers for innovative and competitive services," ACCC Commissioner
The 50 Mbps speed tier remains the most popular with 44.2 per cent of the market, despite dropping by approximately 650,000 services this quarter. This decline was counterbalanced by an increase in the number of wholesale services for both the 25 Mbps and 100 Mbps speed tiers. This change in speed tiers was driven by the expiry of short-term wholesale discounts to the 50 Mbps tier and broadband providers seeking out more cost-effective ways to deliver their services.
The report also found that almost 55,000 premises were upgraded to higher capacity fibre to the premises services in the June quarter. Satellite services continued to decrease, with a decline of about 4,500 services or by 4.8 per cent this quarter.
The average bandwidth that NBN supplied to wholesale access seekers increased to 3.12 Mbps per user in the June quarter, up from 3.01 Mbps in
"Retailers are acquiring more network capacity per service from
Further information, including time series data, is available on the ACCC website at NBN Wholesale Market Indicators Report.
Background
The ACCC's NBN Wholesale Market Indicators Report contains information on
Retail service information is available via the ACCC's Internet Activity record keeping rule report.
Retail service providers use
Most small retail service providers do not directly connect with
https://www.accc.gov.au
.
(C) 2023 M2 COMMUNICATIONS, source