Telecommunications Spend and Demand Report in Victoria, 2012

Brief description

The Victorian Government commissioned Deloitte Access Economics to develop a

model of Victoria’s telecommunications market to provide a tool for government

and market participants to analyse trends, identify unmet demand and to assist

in planning for the future. This review is an update of a study undertaken in

2010 for the then Department of Innovation, Industry and Regional Development

by Access Economics and Gibson Quai-AAS, with an extension of the projection

period out to 2016.

The model contains estimates of current (2011) service coverage, demand for

services, expenditure and subscriber numbers for 10 telecommunication service

categories, as well as forecasts to 2016. The spatial building block of the

model and the lowest level of reporting is at the level of Local Government

Areas (LGAs). The model also includes broader regional aggregates, and

distinguishes between household and business customers.

The timing of this modelling exercise, at the early stages of rollout of the

Federal Government’s National Broadband Network (NBN) and during a period of

rapid development of new applications for telecommunications technologies, is

designed to capture and identify recent and forthcoming changes in Victoria’s

telecommunications markets. The model has been built with the intention that

it can be updated in future years, to include updated data and to reflect

emerging market trends.