Four times as many New Zealanders as Australians on 100 Mbps

“Just seven percent of Australian broadband users subscribed to 100Mbps services, compared to 29 percent of New Zealanders.”

A report in today’s Commsday quotes S&P Kagan’s research on Asia Pacific 100 Mbps broadband usage.

However, it isn’t clear if S&P is only counting users on 100 Mbps or those on 100 Mbps and higher speeds. The company hadn’t responded to a request for more information at the time of writing.

Chorus figures agree with S&P Kagan

This compares with locally sourced figures from Chorus which says that 71 percent of mass market customers on the company’s network have connection speeds of 100 Mbps or higher.

Mass market in this context means consumer and small business accounts.

The S&P Kagan number for New Zealand lines up with the local figures.

In round numbers, about half the people in Chorus' fibre footprint who have fibre access choose to buy fibre plans. We know the numbers for other fibre areas are roughly in line with Chorus. We also know that fibre reaches at two-thirds of the country at the moment.

So, doing the maths, half of two thirds is a third, give or take a point or two, S&P Kagan's 29 percent estimate seems right.