Australia the pricey country for mobile broadband: OECD
- 13 August, 2009 09:38
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Mobile broadband users in Australia pay more than in any other Organisation for Economic Cooperation and Development (OECD) country according to a new report released by the organisation.
The report measured mobile broadband usage in three brackets: high use, medium use and low use.
A high-use mobile broadband service offering 6-20GB per month costs Australians an average of $US62.30 a month. This is more than three times the price of similar connections in Ireland and about 40 per cent higher than the average cost of $US44.
Medium level users (2-6GB per month) also pay a premium in Australia, forking out $US43 a month along with Norway when the average monthly price is $US33 and people in Sweden only pay $US11 a month.
The picture evens up a little for low use mobile broadband (20MB-1GB) where Australians pay $US26.85 per month, only slightly more than the $US25 average. The figures were all taken in August 2008.
The data for mobile broadband was gathered from a survey of 82 offers from 16 operators in eight countries in September last year.
The cost of other broadband services is also comparatively high in Australia. The price of the surveyed cable in Australia rose the most over three years at roughly 14 per cent, although speeds and data caps also increased at the same time.
As of September 2008, Australia is the fourth most expensive country out of all 30 member countries for low speed connections (256-2048kbps) that cost just under $US40 per person when the average is $US32.
Australia is the fifth most expensive country for medium broadband speeds (2500-10,000kbps) that cost just under $US60 when the average price is $US43.
While the average price for high-speed connections (12,000-32,000Mbps) is $US53 per month Australians pay just over $US60.
Overall, Australia, Iceland and Switzerland generate the highest levels of revenue per capita for the telecommunications companies. This is calculated through looking at all access paths: telephone lines, ISDN lines, mobile subscribers, DSL, Cable broadband, fibre and other broadband.
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Comments
m.tivey@yahoo.com.au
We are being ripped off, that's the problem.
michael
like always we are been rip off 3world.
Anonymous
We are a small Population spread over a large area High prices are a fact of life for us and will always be like that. When the new High Speed Network gets build in ten years time the prices will go up even higher.
Anonymous
This report is a load of rubbish !
It is a YEAR old......we like to complain about our communications, but it leaves the U.S.A. for dead. AT&T, probably their biggest carrier rips off the poor yanks with a starter deal of $60.00 for 5Gig / month and there coverage sucks compared to what is available in Australia.
Don
doesn't sound right.
am
doesn't sound right.
am paying $80 a month for 200gb on TPG and have a couple of wireless accounts at Three at $15 & $25 for 1g & 2g. Its the ripoff NextG pricing that inflates the average.
clayweather
Yes - this is a year old! Crazy Johns are offering on a 6 month contract $33 p/m with 3GB.. We are getting better - slowly... Look forward for a price war as the wired ISP's fight it out with added bandwidth with the new pipe - this will drive Wireless ISP's prices down also, just to compete for their market share.
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