The just released ACMA report Australians’ Digital Lives which is here shows the increasing use of the internet in the lives of Australians.
It points to 92% of Australians going on line in the 6 months to May 2014 and 100% of those aged 18 to 44 doing so. On the other hand 6% (1.1M adult Australians) said that they had never used the internet.
94% of Australian have a mobile phone and 74% of these were smartphones. 70% of Australians used a mobile to access the internet
The above ACMA grapic shows that data downloaded in the June quarter 2014 was just over one Exabyte(one billion GB) and that downloads via mobiles were 4% of this. The mobile phone data downloads however were doubling each year. In the June quarter 2014 ABS reported that a fixed broadband user on average downloaded 52GB per month while a mobile subsciber downloaded 80 times less at 630MB per month on average.