Australia is going increasingly mobile, with a record 7.5 million people using their mobile phones to access the Internet during June 2013, according to the Australian Communications and Media Authority’s annual Communications Report.
That was an increase of 33 percent compared to June 2012.
The ACMA report, tabled in Federal Parliament yesterday, also reveals that 10.81 million people went online more than once a day in June – a seven percent increase compared to the same time last year and a 72 per cent increase from June 2008.
Some other findings:
– Internet users are performing more activities online, with 43 per cent undertaking five or more separate online activities during the month.
– Australians downloaded 676,898 terabytes worth of data during the June quarter, up 59 percent on the same quarter last year.
– The number of smartphone users reached 11.19 million, up 29 percent for the year. The number of tablet VoIP users leapt 150 percent to 966,000.
– Some 14.24 million Australians had access to the Internet in their home at June 2013, but half of users also access the Internet at work
“Despite the extraordinarily rapid rate of change, Australians seem to be adapting reasonably confidently and relatively seamlessly to an Internet-enabled world,” quoth ACMA chairman Chris Chapman.
