Archive for August 2017
The total mobile services in operation on the three mobile networks of Telstra, Optus and Vodafone in Australia grew by 1.07m (3.3%) to 33.665m at June 2017.
This reflects the relative saturation of the market as it stands. The numbers are likely to increase much faster in the coming years as the cellular mobile component of the Internet of Things (IoT) ramps up.
All carriers are working towards network evolution to support Category M1 (Cat-M1) and later NB-IoT standards targeting, lower speed and cost, low power and wide coverage networks for IoT applications.