Internet Service Provider Survey: 2011

Key facts

The total number of broadband subscribers increased by 14 percent, to almost 1.5 million between June 2010 and June 2011.
The largest growth rate of all broadband connections was in cellular, cable, and satellite connections. When combined, these increased almost 50 percent since June 2010.
Almost 80 percent of broadband subscribers at June 2011 had a data cap of 5 gigabytes (GB) or more, with the most common cap between 5 and 20GB.
The number of subscribers with an upload speed of 1.5Mbps or more increased by almost three quarters since 2010.
The average subscriber consumed 9GB of data per month between June 2010 and June 2011.
In the three months prior to 30 June 2011, 1.9 million New Zealanders had active Internet subscriptions via a mobile phone.

Graph, Internet subscription data cap, broadband subscribers, as at June 2009, June 2010, and June 2011.

Geoff Bascand
Government Statistician

14 October 2011
ISSN 1178-0509