Over 30 percent of New Zealand Internet Service Providers have made IPv6 available to their subscribers, according to Statistics New Zealand.
The government statistician reports that, at June 2012, 33 percent of ISPs had IPv6 available to subscribers. 11 percent intended to have it available within six months, 17 percent between six months to one year, 28 percent between one to two years, and a further 11 percent between two to four years. 11 percent of ISPs had no plans to make IPv6 available.
These figures are an improvement, albeit slight, on the percentage of ISPs who made IPv6 available last year.
The figures were contained deep within Statistics New Zealand’s latest Internet Service Provider Survey, which annually surveys 70 ISPs.
More generally (not related to IPv6), the survey also found that 93 percent of subscribers (over 1.6 million people) are using a broadband connection. DSL is the most common connection method, with over 1.1 million subscribers. Fibre optic connections are the least common.
96% of subscribers are downloading at between 1.5 and 24 megabits per second.
There has also been a significant rise in higher data caps (those with a cap of 20GB or more), and the average subscriber consumed an estimated 16GB of data in the year ended June 2012, says Statistics New Zealand.
More than half the population are now acessing the Internet via a mobile phone, and 50 percent of ISPs monitor their subscribers’ security – notably for botnets.
More information about the survey can be read at:
www.stats.govt.nz/browse_for_stats/industry_sectors/information_technology_and_communications/ISPSurvey_HOTPJun12/Commentary.aspx