Archive for August 2016
The total Australian mobile services in operation increased to 32.536 million at June 2016.
Telstra reported a total of 17.734 million services on its mobile network as at June 2016 (including 530,000 wholesale). Despite its network issues earlier in the year Telstra reported HERE an increase of mobile services of 560,000 in the year to 30 June 2016.
Optus reported HERE a loss of 43,000 services to 9.336 million in the 12 months to June 2016 while Vodafone HERE reported a gain of 239,000 services to 5.5 million in the same period.
Telstra’s market share at June 2016 was 54.5% which is the highest it has been since last century. Time will tell if the effects of Telstra’s network outages will have a delayed effect on its market share.
The history of mobile network market share since 1992 when competition was introduces to the Australian market is shown below.
