After having collected data on dial-up internet connections for over 15 years with cooperation from ISPs, the ABS has decided to pull the plug after subscriber numbers fell to 90,000 in June 2016.
It’s unsurprising that given the rise of fixed broadband technologies, such as cable, DSL, fibre, and wireless alternatives such as 3G and 4G cellular connections, that the humble dial-up internet connection has gradually declined in popularity. In fact, over the years, larger players such as British Telecom have pulled out of their shrinking local market forcing users to find alternative arrangements.
Interestingly, numbers have now dwindled to the point that the Australian Bureau of Statistics (ABS) has decided to stop counting the number of dial-up connections down under.
Having first started collecting data in the last quarter of 2000, the ABS released its first Internet Activity report in March 2001 which found that there were 3.
