Australia - Telecoms, Mobile and Broadband - Statistics and Analyses
Australia’s telco bodies associations for more dedicated 5G spectrum
Australia’s mobile market has undergone significant ome changes in recent years, particularly following the merger of TPG with Vodafone, becoming TPG Telecom. Thee three MNOs have long provided extensive services based on LTE, but since 2020 they have focussed on the 5G platform.
5G services have been supported by recent spectrum auctions, though industry bodies including the AMTA have called for at least an additional 8GHz of spectrum to be reserved for 5G services by 2030. Spectrum which should be made available wuld cover the low, mid and mmWave bands. This would be optimal for urban areas as well as sparsely populated rural environments.
The additional spectrum would also help the MVNO sector, which for some years was held back by the inability of these smaller operators to access 5G services from their host networks. This in turn hampered their ability to develop a stronger subscriber base. Optus was the first MNO to provide 5G access to MVNOs, with Telstra planning to do so later in 2022.
Telstra’s 5G infrastructure is aimed at delivering data at up to 10Gb/s, but is focussed less on a boost in data speed than in connectivity. This is with a view to addressing the future challenges created by the IoT sector, wherein a vast range of appliances and devices can be interconnected. By June 2022, the company provided 85% population coverage with 5G.
TPG Telecom is building a Nokia-based 5G network (after the government had banned its former vendor Huawei from all 5G networks), and as of early 2022 the company claimed 85% population coverage in the ten largest cities and regions of the country.
Optus was also obliged to drop Huawei, and has since developed a multi-vendor approach to its 5G rollout, partnering with both Ericsson and Nokia. The first service, launched in January 2019, was priced to compete with fixed-line services offered over the NBN. Optus now operates more than 1,000 5G sites across the capital cities, as well as in key areas outside of these cities.
- Executive Summary
- Key statistics
- Table Top Level Country Statistics and Telco Authorities- Australia – 2022 (e)
- Telecommunications market
- MARKET OVERVIEW AND ANALYSIS
- Table Total telecom market retail revenue by service ($ billion) –2012 – 2020
- Table Total telecoms market - annual growth by service – 2012 – 2020
- Table Total telecoms market - market share by service – 2012 – 2020
- Table Telecom revenue by major provider (A$ billion) –2014 – 2021
- Table Annual growth in telecom revenue by major provider – 2015 – 2021
- Table Market share of telecom revenue by major provider – 2014 – 2021
- Table Second-tier telcos’ revenue and annual change – 2012 – 2021
- Table Second-tier telcos’ revenue by provider (A$ million) –2014 – 2021
- MARKET OVERVIEW AND ANALYSIS
- Regulatory environment
- REGULATORY AUTHORITIES
- FIXED-LINE DEVELOPMENTS
- Number portability
- Alternative voice services trials program (AVST)
- Mobile Black Spot Program
- Telecommunications Act 1997 amendments
- Standards, rules, and benchmarks related to the country’s statutory infrastructure providers (SIP)
- MOBILE MARKET DEVELOPMENTS
- Spectrum ownership and licences
- Fifteen-year spectrum licence pathway
- Additional spectrum 5G
- Spectrum auctions
- Mobile market
- MARKET ANALYSIS
- MOBILE STATISTICS
- Table Growth in the number of mobile subscribers and penetration – 2012 – 2027
- Operator market share
- Table Change in the number of mobile subscribers by operator (million) –2012 – 2021
- Table Annual change of the number of mobile subscribers by operator – 2012 – 2021
- Table Change in the market share of mobile subscribers by operator – 2012 – 2021
- Prepaid and postpaid subscribers
- Table Change in the number of prepaid subscribers by operator (million) –2012 – 2021
- Table MNO market share of prepaid subscribers – 2012 – 2021
- Table Change in the number of postpaid subscribers by operator (million) –2012 – 2021
- Table MNO market share of postpaid subscribers – 2012 – 2021
- Table Change in the number of prepaid and postpaid subscribers (million) –2012 – 2021
- Table Change in the proportion of prepaid and postpaid subscribers – 2009 – 2021
- Table Prepaid as proportion of total mobile subscribers by operator – 2012 – 2021
- Table Postpaid as proportion of total mobile subscribers by operator – 2012 – 2021
- Mobile services revenue
- Table Total mobile services market revenue and annual change – 2012 – 2027
- Table Mobile market revenue per major operator (A$ billion) –2012 – 2021
- Table Mobile market revenue market share per major operator – 2012 – 2021
- Table Annual change of mobile market revenue per major operator – 2012 – 2021
- Average revenue per user (ARPU)
- Table Change in Telstra’s mobile ARPU - prepaid, postpaid, mobile broadband (A$/subscriber/month) –2012 – 2021
- Table Change in Optus’s mobile ARPU (A$/subscriber/month) –2012 – 2022
- Table Change in Vodafone Australia’s monthly ARPU (A$/subscriber/month) –2015 – 2019
- Mobile voice
- Mobile broadband
- Table Growth in the number of mobile broadband subscribers and penetration – 2012 – 2027
- Table Wireless broadband subscribers by access type (thousand) –2012 – 2018
- MOBILE INFRASTRUCTURE
- 5G
- 4G (LTE)
- 3G
- GSM
- Other infrastructure developments
- Table Mobile broadband subscribers by MNO (million) –2012 – 2021
- Table Estimated mobile broadband data downloaded in Petabytes – 2012 – 2021
- MAJOR MOBILE OPERATORS
- Telstra
- Table Development of Telstra Group’s financial data (A$ billion) –2012 – 2022
- Table Development of Telstra’s mobile prepaid and postpaid revenue (A$ million) –2012 – 2022
- Table Development of Telstra’s mobile revenue by type (A$ billion) –2012 – 2022
- Table Change in the number of Telstra’s mobile subscribers by type (million) –2012 – 2021
- Optus
- Table Development of Optus’s mobile revenue (A$ billion) –2012 – 2022
- Table Change in the number of Optus’s mobile subscribers – 2012 – 2022
- Table Change in the number of Optus’s mobile subscribers by type (thousand) –2012 – 2022
- TPG Telecom (formerly Vodafone Hutchison Australia)
- Table Development of Vodafone Australia’s revenue (A$ billion) –2012 – 2019
- Table Change in the number of Vodafone Australia’s mobile subscribers by type (million) –2012 – 2019
- Table Change in the number of TPG Telecom’s mobile subscribers by type – 2019 – 2021
- Table Development of TPG Telecom’s mobile revenue by service (A$ billion) –2019 – 2021
- Mobile Virtual Network Operators (MVNOs)
- Table Development of amaysim’s mobile financial data (A$ million) –2016 – 2021
- Table Change in the number of amaysim’s mobile subscribers – 2014 – 2020
- Telstra
- MOBILE HANDSETS
- Table Australian handset platform market share – 2017 – 2020
- Table Internet connections via mobile handsets – 2012 – 2021
- Wearables and smartwatches
- Fixed-line broadband market
- MARKET ANALYSIS
- FIXED BROADBAND STATISTICS
- Table Fixed broadband retail subscribers by major provider (thousand) –2012 – 2021
- Table Fixed broadband retail subscriber annual growth by major provider – 2012 – 2021
- Table Fixed broadband retail subscribers market share by major provider – 2012 – 2020
- Table Change in the number of Telstra’s retail and wholesale broadband subscribers (million) –2012 – 2021
- Table Fixed broadband subscribers by access type (million) –2012 – 2019
- Table Fixed broadband subscriber annual growth – 2012 – 2019
- Table Wireless broadband subscribers by access type (thousand) –2012 – 2021
- Table Wireless broadband subscriber annual growth – 2012 – 2021
- Table Market share of fixed and fixed wireless broadband subscribers – 2012 – 2019
- Table Growth in the number of fixed broadband subscribers and penetration – 2012 – 2027
- Table Internet subscribers by download speed – 2016 – 2018
- Table Volume of data downloaded by access type (TB) –2013 – 2021
- NATIONAL BROADBAND NETWORK (NBN)
- Overview and statistics
- Table NBN premises activated, ready for service (thousand) –2012 – 2021
- Table Development of NBN CO’s revenue – 2013 – 2022
- Table Change in NBN Co’s annualised ARPU – 2013 – 2022
- Table Change in NBN Co’s fibre capex (A$ million) –2013 – 2020
- Table Change in NBN Co’s HFC, wireless, other capex (A$ million) –2013 – 2022
- Table Growth in the number of NBN Co’s fibre connections by platform (thousand) –2016 – 2021
- Table Growth in the number of NBN Co’s HFC, wireless, satellite connections (thousand) –2016 – 2021
- Table Change in the share of NBN Co’s connections by platform – 2016 – 2021
- Table NBN’s FttP connections and market share by operator – December 2021
- Table NBN’s FttB connections and market share by operator – December 2021
- Table NBN’s FttN connections and market share by operator – December 2021
- Table NBN’s FttC connections and market share by operator – December 2021
- Table NBN’s HFC connections and market share by operator – December 2021
- Table NBN’s wireless broadband connections and market share by operator – December 2021
- Table NBN’s satellite broadband connections and market share by operator – December 2021
- Fixed wireless networks
- NBN Co’s satellite network
- Overview and statistics
- FIBRE NETWORKS
- Table Growth in the number of FttP subscribers – 2016 – 2021
- Table Growth in the number of FttC subscribers – 2018 – 2021
- Table NBN’s capex on FttN and FttC (A$ million) –2014 – 2020
- Major players
- G.FAST AND XG.FAST
- HFC (CABLE) NETWORKS
- Table HFC Roll out plan – 2016 – 2020
- Table Cable broadband subscribers by major operator (thousand) –2012 – 2020
- DSL
- Table DSL broadband subscribers – 2012 – 2019
- WI-FI
- FIXED BROADBAND SERVICE PROVIDERS
- Telstra
- Optus
- Table Change in the number of Optus’s broadband connections by type (thousand) –2013 – 2022
- TPG Telecom
- Table Development of TPG’s financial data (A$ million) –2012 – 2019
- Table Development of TPG Telecom’s financial data (A$ billion) –2019 – 2021
- Table TPG’s revenue by division (A$ million) –2012 – 2019
- Table TPG Telecom’s revenue by division (A$ million) –2019 – 2021
- Table TPG’s broadband ARPU (A$ / month) –2016 – 2021
- Table TPG - Consumer broadband subscribers (thousand) by product – 2017 – 2021
- Table TPG - Group mobile subscribers (thousand) by division – 2014 – 2020
- Vocus
- Table Vocus Australia - consumer broadband subscribers (thousand) –2018 – 2021
- Table Development of Vocus Group’s financial data (A$ million) –2012 – 2021
- Macquarie Telecom
- Table Development of Macquarie Telecom’s financial data (A$ million) –2012 – 2022
- Uniti Group Limited (UWL)
- HyperOne
- Digital economy
- INTERNET OF THINGS (IOT)
- Market statistics and surveys
- SMART CITY PROJECTS
- E-GOVERNMENT
- INTERNET OF THINGS (IOT)
- Telecommunications infrastructure
- NATIONAL TELECOM NETWORK
- Table Decline in the number of fixed-line subscriptions and penetration – 2012 – 2027
- INTERNATIONAL INFRASTRUCTURE
- Submarine cables
- NATIONAL TELECOM NETWORK
- Appendix – Historic data
- Table Historic - Pay TV revenue by major operator ($ million) –1997 – 2017
- Table Historic - Blended monthly ARPU by MNO ($/subscriber/month) –2000 – 2010
- Table Historic - Total telecoms market - retail revenue by service ($ million) –2001 – 2015
- Table Historic - Total telecoms revenues by smaller operators, and total ($ billion) –2005 – 2013
- Table Historic - Total telecoms revenues by major providers ($ billion) –2000 – 2011
- Table Historic - Second-tier telcos – revenue by provider – 2010 – 2014
- Table Historic - Second-tier telcos – revenue by provider (historic) –2004 – 2007
- Table Historic - Total business and residential broadband subscribers (thousand) –2006 – 2014
- Table Historic - Annual change of mobile subscribers by carrier – 1995 – 2011
- Table Historic - Retail mobile subscriber market share by MNO and MVNO – 2015 – 2016
- Table Historic - Share of prepaid subscribers by MNO and MVNO – 2014 – 2015
- Table Historic - Share of postpaid subscribers by MNO and MVNO – 2014 – 2015
- Table Historic - Total mobile services market revenue and annual change – 1995 –
- Table Historic - Mobile subscribers, penetration, and annual change – 2000 – 2011
- Table Historic - HTA key metrics ($ million) –2009 – 2015
- Table Historic - Monthly ARPU and by segment ($/subscriber/month) –2009 – 2012
- Table Historic - Vodafone Australia revenue – 1996 – 2011
- Table Historic - VHA MVNO customers – 2014 – 2016
- Table Historic - Telstra Group’s financial data – 2008 – 2011
- Table Historic - Telstra’s mobile ARPU - prepaid, postpaid, mobile broadband (A$/subscriber/month) –2009 – 2011
- Table Historic - Optus’s mobile subscribers and annual change – 2009 – 2011
- Table Historic - Retail mobile subscribers share by MNO and MVNO – 2016 – 2017
- Table Historic - Retail mobile subscribers share by MNO and MVNO – 2013 – 2015
- Table Historic – NBN’s revenue by type – 2013 – 2017
- Table Historic - M2’s acquisitions – 2005 – 2015
- Glossary of abbreviations
- Related reports
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