Australia crawls along information superhighway

09.03.2006

Companies like iiNet and Internode provide services up to 24Mbps via the existing copper-wire network.

But Australians are among the top users of mobile phones, with 887 per 1000 people.

This figure is higher than most European nations, Japan, and the US.

The cost of mobile phone calls in Australia is much lower than elsewhere. The report ranked Telstra the 28th largest telco in the world.