New connections were up 50 per cent over the previous year, an Australian Bureau of Statistics survey found.
While
70 per cent of Australian households are connected to the internet only
3.5 million – 43 per cent of those – have access to broadband.
The
Australian Capital Territory has the highest proportion of broadband
connections (58 per cent of all households) while Tasmania (32 per
cent) and South Australia (33 per cent) have the lowest.
The
survey showed that about three-quarters of Australian households have
access to a computer and five million had internet access.
In less than 10 years that represents a five-fold increase in the number of household internet connections.
The
survey also found that half of all Australians over the age of 15 said
they used the internet daily and more than 90 per cent used it weekly.
People
with lower levels of education, older people, indigenous Australians
and the unemployed had considerably lower internet usage.
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