Dial-up connections continued to decline and accounted for 20.8 per cent of all Internet connections in December 2006.

Connection speed

As dial-up subscriptions decrease, there is less interest in measuring the different types of dial-up, and more in broadband. Therefore, with effect from this release, data on metered and unmetered dial-up subscriptions have been discontinued.

These have been replaced by data on broadband connection speeds. The three categories of broadband connection speed used are; less than or equal to 2 megabits per second; greater than 2 megabits per second and less than or equal to 8 megabits per second; and greater than 8 megabits per second.

Some ISPs did not report the connection speeds that they provide and these have been categorised as “speed unknown” in the following table.