Archive for November 2018
The total mobile services in operation on the three mobile networks (Telstra, Optus and Vodafone) in Australia grew by 1.265m (3.8%) to a total of 34.914m at June 2018. The share of network subscriptions has not moved much in the year to June 2018 with Telstra losing 0.7% and Vodafone gaining 0.4% and Optus 0.3%.
The 2017/18 growth is very similar to 2016/17 of 1.07m (3.3%) and continues to reflect the relative saturation of the handset, tablet and mobile broadband markets as they stand.
Growth in future in service numbers (if not revenue) will come from the mobile component of the Internet of Things (IoT) and to a lesser extent fixed internet substitution. These will be enabled by the Category M1 and Narrow Band IoT features of LTE and the start in 2019 of deployment of 5G.