The state of our telecommunications market
An interesting report from the Commerce Commission on our telecommunications market. Some key points:
- Calling on a mobile phone is becoming more popular than calling on a fixed‑line phone, with mobile voice minutes poised to overtake fixed‑line voice minutes
- Fixed broadband connections continued growing to reach 1.45 million as at 30 June 2015
- Average data consumed per fixed line is 48 GB/mth up from 32 GB
- A bundle sufficient for 900 calls and 2GB of data in February 2016 could be purchased for $59 a month compared to $69 in August 2014
- Fixed line broadband connections per 100 pop have increased from 22.8 in 2008 to 32.6 in 2015
- Average broadband speed up from 3Mbps in 2008 to 9.3 in 2015
- 121 mobile phones per 100 people
- 197,000 premises connected to fibre
- 922,000 premises have fibre available