As at September 2006, Australia had a total of 6.7 million active Internet subscribers - over half a million more than in March 2005, according to the ABS. Just under 60% of these subscribers had broadband connections, compared with 30% at the end of March 2005.
There were 5.8 million household subscribers and 826,000 business and government subscribers approximately 2.8 million subscribers used a dial-up connection Digital Subscriber Line (DSL and ADSL) was used by almost three million broadband subscribers (77%).
The highest proportion of Internet subscribers were in New South Wales (33%), followed by Victoria (24%), Queensland (20%) and Western Australia (11%) there were 467 Internet service providers operating in Australia at the end of September 2006, 32% fewer than in March 2005.
