Jul 12 2010
Research and Markets has released a new report titled ‘Australia - Broadband - DSL Market, Overview, Statistics and Providers’. The report provides an overview of the DSL market, its statistics and the list of various providers in the market.
According to the report, there are over 600 Internet Service Providers (ISPs) in Australia, but only a few companies dominate the retail fixed broadband sector. Telstra occupies 43% of the total market services and has the maximum retail subscribers. Optus, the second major player, has around 11%, TPG and iiNet hold about 8% share, and Primus occupies 6% of the market share. Other Medium and small-sized providers occupy the remaining 24% of the market services.
Over the past two years, consolidation has occurred in the ISP retail market with several mergers. Some of the major deals were struck between Westnet and iiNet, between Pipe Networks and TPG, and between TPG and Soul and Chariot Internet. In the beginning of 2010, iiNet acquired a Melbourne-based internet service provider, Netspace.
The investments in the DSLAM infrastructure remained low-key during the end of 2009, but in view of the subscribers’ migration to the fibre network, the national broadband network (NBN) may make the investment obsolete.