NZ Broadband speeds up while uptake slowing

Early this month, Statistics New Zealand released the Internet Service Providers Survey from March 2007, providing fresh information on broadband usage in New Zealand.

Key to the report is the finding that more Broadband users are on faster download speeds, with 2 – 10Mps now the most common speed (as at 31st March 2007), a shift from the previous six months where 512kbs – 2Mbps was the predominant download speed.

The Broadband vs Dial-up battle is tipped to switch soon with 739,000 subscribers on dial-up (down 4.1% from six months earlier) and 724,600 using broadband (up 18.5%).

On the email front, 98.4% of Internet subscribers have now adopted email filtering products from their ISP (including both free and charged).

The next instalment of the Internet Service Provider Survey will be released in March 2008.

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