SA's telecommunications sector DEC is projected to increase from $1.3 billion in 2011 to $2.3 billion in 2031. The 76 per cent forecast rise in DEC is a larger increase than the 55 per cent cumulative growth forecast for the SA's economy over the same period.
Most of the regional areas of SA currently have poor quality fixed broadband services, however, Adelaide and larger towns have good or very good quality broadband services. A relatively large area of Adelaide has access to broadband through hybrid fibre, fibre or fixed wireless networks.
In SA, 86 per cent of premises have access to ADSL, 79 per cent have 3G mobile coverage, 52 per cent have 4G coverage, 23 per cent have access to hybrid-fibre co-axial (HFC) and just one per cent have access to fibre to the premise.459
For overall quality of fixed broadband service, SA lags behind the large eastern states.
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459. Department of Communications (2013), p. 14