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The Australian Competition and Consumer Commission (ACCC) this month released the latest in its annual series of publications on major telco revenues in Australia, Telecommunications Market Indicators Report 2005-2006.
The Report provides revenue, usage and market
share data for the five biggest telcos
- Telstra, Optus, Vodafone, Primus and AAPT.
 The Report's focus is on retail services, with data
gathered from the ACCC Regulatory Accounting
Framework.
The Report's data covers these Public Switched
Telephone Network (PSTN) and mobile
retail services:
- end-user access (line rental)
- local calls
- domestic long distance calls
- international calls
- fixed-to-mobile calls
- internet services
- GSM [Global System
for Mobile Communications] and CDMA [Code
Division Multiple Access] network services.
In Explanatory Notes
to the Report, the ACCC explains the statistical base for its data:
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"2. Currently, only the five
largest carriers (by total revenue) report under the RAF [Regulatory Accounting Framework]. These are
AAPT, Optus, Primus, Telstra, and Vodafone. This means, the total market data
and market shares in this report relate to these five reporting RAF carriers
only and not the market as a whole. ...
4. This report only provides information for certain services that
a reporting carrier may provide and, as such, does not disclose the total
revenues or service usage of a reporting carrier's entire business."
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Revenue sources and market shares
In 2005-06 the total revenue from retail telecommunications
services totaled A$18.1 billion.
Breaking that figure down into revenue sources is the following
additional Report data.
| A$8.1 billion |
Total revenue from Public Switched Telephone Network (PSTN) services.
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| A$7.8 billion |
Total revenue from retail mobile services,
including GSM and CDMA network services and domestic
GSM origination/termination.
[COMMENT: Hence in 2006-07 it likely that mobile revenues
will overtake PSTN revenues. This will be off the back of 3G services launched
by Telstra, Optus and Vodafone in
late 2005.]
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A$2.16 billion
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Total revenue from internet
services, including dial-up, cable,
satellite and asymmetric digital
subscriber line (ADSL).
[COMMENT: Unsurprisingly the growth in revenues from
internet services was the highest across all services in percentage terms, rising 32.5%
to A$2.16 billion, with ADSL services increasing 85% and comprising A$807
million of that. The Report states that "... the share from ADSL
services has grown from 6% of total internet retail revenue in 2001-02 to 37% in
2005-06."]
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Finally, as regards market shares of the major telcos for retail services, the Report
states: "Market share has remained mostly steady with
Telstra retaining roughly 60% of overall
revenues for services covered in this report. Optus
increased its overall share to 26% in 2005-06 while other carriers accounted for
about 13%."
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Full report:
Telecommunications
market indicator report 2005-06 (released August 07).pdf (371.8 KB).
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